It's not the same. This isn't trying to break the rules of physics. It's just a very large welfare program that would benefit from not having a bureaucracy behind it. And it would rely on the theory that enough people will still want work, so that they can afford luxuries, live where they want to, and get other trappings of social status.
Sounds like living in a libertarian paradise. Except if you get stabbed and your doctor doesn't take your particular private healthcare plan. Then you bleed out while singing the praises of deregulation.
??? You're getting downvotes because your comment was apropos of nothing. I was just correcting analyticbastard's conception of UBI, I wasn't stating support for anything.
