The thing is, the subsidised poor already have a huge system of entitlements in most developed countries. Governments combat homelessness with social housing (net value far more than $10k per annum where I live) and direct despondent former Fortran programmers into jobs or onto retraining schemes whilst paying them enough to live on.

Arguments for universal BI (as opposed to tweaks to benefit entitlement rules) are in effect a suggestion that people on those programmes should have less so that we can afford to extend subsidies to middle class stay-at-home wives and twenty-somethings on gap years, because rich people that don't want to work obviously deserve the same as people with nothing going through a crisis. And you have the temerity to intemperately accuse anyone that questions it of being elitists.

And yes, BI is something which has been chiefly advocated by privileged white men.