> Cash cannot be tracked, it can also be easily stolen, meaning its near impossible to verify it used as intended
One of the major motivations cited by many proponents of Basic Income is that a lot of the cost of existing poverty aid programs -- which they see BI replacing -- is tied up in administrative overhead verifying that aid is "used as intended", which does a lot to support a bunch of administrative government (and government-contracting) professional jobs -- which I guess is a kind of anti-poverty program for the college educated -- but really reduces the efficiency of actually getting the money where it is intended, as well as paternalistically assuming that the government knows how people should spend money to improve their situation better than they do.
One of the major motivations cited by many proponents of Basic Income is that a lot of the cost of existing poverty aid programs -- which they see BI replacing -- is tied up in administrative overhead verifying that aid is "used as intended", which does a lot to support a bunch of administrative government (and government-contracting) professional jobs -- which I guess is a kind of anti-poverty program for the college educated -- but really reduces the efficiency of actually getting the money where it is intended, as well as paternalistically assuming that the government knows how people should spend money to improve their situation better than they do.