Yes

It's extremely simple which means it won't cost the government a fortune paid out to some expensive consultancy agency to implement. If it's enough to live on you should have no more homeless and hungry people which will be nicer for everyone even the rich like me who will be paying for this.

Universal basic income would help to ensure that no one is living in poverty. It would also reduce the risk of the current welfare system being exploited.

One can see a list of studies with supporting links here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income_pilots

This one contextualizes the work disincentive that exists in practice, demonstrating that society is not significantly harmed by that which does exist; it may be paywalled though (it was free to read years ago): https://philpapers.org/rec/PASWTT

For moral arguments:

This book makes a strong moral argument for "freedom as the power to say no" and is free to read from the author: https://widerquist.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Freedom-as-the-Power-to-Say-No-Independence…  Read more-Propertylessness-and-Basic-Income-90.pdf

In Kenya 21,000 participants in 295 villages received monthly payments, Poverty fell by 22%, food insecurity dropped by 37%, and school attendance rose by 17%

In Kenya 21,000 participants in 295 villages received monthly payments, Poverty fell by 22%, food insecurity dropped by 37%, and school attendance rose by 17%

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-over-1000-job-cuts-rattle-tech-industry-in-2025-amazon-meta-google-intel-lay-off-thousands-of-employees-check-full-list-of-companies/articleshow/125029264.cms?from=mdr

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/tens-thousands-layoffs-are-blamed-ai-are-companies-actually-getting-rcna240221

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07vmllz38jo

While it's not yet fully here as AI is still in it's infancy, the fear of it is real and justified as someone who works in the tech sector. I've personally seen the…  Read more available jobs in my market drastically decline from 2020 to 2025 and its mostly due to investment drying up in normal tech sectors and being pushed into AI companies like OpenAI, Oracle, NVidia etc in an effort to replace humans with automation/AI. Amazon is already looking/testing robots in their warehouses so they don't need to employ people which also wouldn't require the robots to have breaks like humans do. There is no incentive to humans doing mundane tasks or in future most tasks as AI outpaces them in speed and effeciency.

if you don't assist those in extreme poverty, you are no better than the business men of the Victorian ages.

It would reduce mental health issues in terms of the stress and worry about basic living requirements. It would also massively simplify the complex benefits systems and reduce the stigma around people who are legitimately on benefits. If people don't want to work they are always going to find ways around it, so stop trying to get people who don't want to work to work and start focussing on those who do, by providing a better education system based on the technology we have available to us now and what's coming in the near future, more funding for higher education, better apprenticeships and less stress on pupils.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/the-results-finlands-universal-basic-income-experiment-are-in-is-it-working/

Money is a motivation to work - to provide for yourself, your family, your country. UBI removes a considerable portion of this motivation by giving people an income regardless of work done. It supports a laziness. Also, there are plenty of benefits already in existence for those who struggle to make ends meet with their pay-check.

A experiment was conducted in California (SEED) where 125 adults were given $500 extra per month on a prepaid for credit card on top of their incomes for 2 years and this money was tracked and categorized.

At the end of the experiments it found that Full time employment rose among the adults (28% --> 40%)

The expenditures on the credit cards were categorized as shown below:
Food: 36.92%

Sales/Merchandise: 22.70% (the report notes some of this likely includes food from big-box/wholesale stores)

Utilities: 11.34%

Auto care: 8.77%

Services: 6.90%

Transportation: 3.45%

Medical: 3.06%

In…  Read moresurance: 3.28%

Self-care/recreation: 2.09%

Test cases in Scandinavia, and the new scheme for artists/musicians in Ireland are demonstrating the positive impact UBI can have. Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" presents a comprehensive analysis of the impact of capital flow over the past century and makes a compelling case that concentration, rather than distribution, of capital causes more economic harm in terms of growth.

UBI supports everyone with essential living materials. It will also serve as a means of increasing wages within the job market, the added safety net puts the public and unions in a better position to push for higher pay.

Everyone having enough money to meet basic living costs benefits everyone is society. It’s also cheaper to administer than the current benefits system.

Wouldn't it be nice to not have to choose between heating or eating? Instead knowing you have some UBI of whatever value to spend on essentials like good fresh nutritious meals?