That was a good angle on how the US GDP is enhanced by the paper shuffling of health industry. No real extra value is produced.

I was having an interesting discussion with a libertarian on Medium. She was complaining that a UBI would cost the economy a lot more.

I mentioned that with a UBI, many petty criminals would not be doing petty crime. One petty criminal is more expensive on society than 10 families on UBI. She didn't respond.