Yep, people continuing to dodge this is curious.
the "choose between welfare and a universal basic income" bit makes a little more sense when you realize that, oh, most people don't qualify for welfare, and even less will once conservatives get their machine learning classifiers fired up to find excuses why certain people don't deserve welfare
and given how the response to a flat $1000 for all is enough to get people to dive into the welfare queen rhetoric, it will be easy for them to sway self-proclaimed progressives into making welfare programs as exclusionary as possible
for someone so curious you sure are adverse to thought, huh?
and no, i don't think his plan is ideal! the amount is too low and he leaned too hard into trying to appeal across the isle, but i'd prefer if you didn't slander the policy because you dislike the man who proposed it based on shitposts you read online
again, save that sort of needlessly aggressive posting to farm clout over how allegedly progressive you are for twitter, please