Large corporations want universal income to be the norm. They want government to provide the poor beyond just healthcare and housing so they can keep paying poverty wages. Social safety nets are essentially subsidies for large corporations. There is no need to pay a living wage if the government is providing the living part.
Bingo. And yet, the people running these corporations are too dumb to realize that UBI is basically impossible.
Just providing every adult with money to meet the national average poverty threshold would use up the federal government's entire budget in less than a year.
This is a uniquely stupid proposition that leads me to believe the people in charge who are promoting this are either braindead or they think everyone else is.
Or you are the braindead one incapable of seeing two steps ahead of yourself. Tell me what happens once AI make everyones labor redundancy? A ubi is a must for the coming wave of automation will bring. The industrial revolution freed the slaves. The robotics revolution will free people from work.