I've been told by several advocates (and one person who actually worked on a pilot version) that Universal Basic Income is both easy to implement and better for the stability of market capitalism overall. With those two things in mind – simplicity and profitability – why no political will from corporations to see this through?
From my perspective this amounts to an expansion of the corporate-welfare model to the general population. Currently the corporate-welfare model seems to operate on a combination of tax incentives, subsidies and suppression of wage growth for the general population. Underemployed, unemployed and disable people are supposed to be given benefits to participate in the market (although in places like the U.S., those benefits are completely inadequate). So how do advocates of UBI propose to convince (or force, whichever) capitalists and governments into setting UBl up?