Your writing sounds like someone put you under pressure to finance UBI and combat poverty. I think that’s not good. If they want you to pay for something, then it’s their job to explain to you why it’s ultimately good for you. Of course, in case the difference is too big, they also have the right to cut tie with you — a threat which is only effective if they are doing it better than you or you are doing better in the community with them than outside.
If you are not under pressure but want to hinder others in implementing UBI and combatting poverty, then you have trespassed. As you said, the definition of poverty can vary from place to place and from time to time, so without looking into the specific case, you can’t actually know for sure if it is productive or not. I heard that Christianity rose as a religion for the poor, which united and empowered them so much that a Roman emperor found it good to adopt this religion. I’m no Christ, so if I’m wrong you can correct me. And even if I’m right in this point, it still doesn’t say much about your specific case which I don’t know.
My point is: everyone has the right to implement UBI and combat poverty if they gather the resources for it on a voluntary basis (forcing in debt doesn’t violate the voluntary principle as long as the debt was made by free will, so if you have received benefit then you have to somehow repay someday) and they can do it in the way they see it fit. In the example about Christianity, the UBI was not designed as a certain amount of money but enough food to avoid starvation and shelter to avoid freezing to death. Of course, one can also do it differently.
Your writing sounds like someone put you under pressure to finance UBI and combat poverty. I think that’s not good. If they want you to pay for something, then it’s their job to explain to you why it’s ultimately good for you. Of course, in case the difference is too big, they also have the right to cut tie with you — a threat which is only effective if they are doing it better than you or you are doing better in the community with them than outside.
If you are not under pressure but want to hinder others in implementing UBI and combatting poverty, then you have trespassed. As you said, the definition of poverty can vary from place to place and from time to time, so without looking into the specific case, you can’t actually know for sure if it is productive or not. I heard that Christianity rose as a religion for the poor, which united and empowered them so much that a Roman emperor found it good to adopt this religion. I’m no Christ, so if I’m wrong you can correct me. And even if I’m right in this point, it still doesn’t say much about your specific case which I don’t know.
My point is: everyone has the right to implement UBI and combat poverty if they gather the resources for it on a voluntary basis (forcing in debt doesn’t violate the voluntary principle as long as the debt was made by free will, so if you have received benefit then you have to somehow repay someday) and they can do it in the way they see it fit. In the example about Christianity, the UBI was not designed as a certain amount of money but enough food to avoid starvation and shelter to avoid freezing to death. Of course, one can also do it differently.