UBIFear

Fear is the best weapon in order to sustain power

We might think that taking away fear will mostly let us take chances and change jobs and that way the basic income can be extra profitable, but it is also very underestimated and it might also be a lot more important that fear of poverty also sustains the political system: unions complain because otherwise we will put people in misery that have no jobs and politicians have an excuse to create jobs to supply them: bureaucracy.

Political systems sustain bureaucracy

The utopia of rules: on technology, stupidity and the secret joys of bureaucracy David Graeber