Understood.

• Cutting a check for everyone without much fuss makes sense, at least in the short term. Long-term: I am too lazy to think or talk about this in further detail, but in short, I think it's easy to argue that additional structural changes beyond UBI would be needed for equity in society to be established and maintained.
• I agree that implementing UBI today would be a hard sell to many people, not even accounting for the counter politics from anyone right of centre.
• Also, techbros love simplistic solutions to complex issues that let them stop caring and go back to trying to suck from VC money hoses.