The whole point of a basic income is that it is a rejection of the idea that social welfare programs should direct spending.habits or lifestyle: in fact, it's sold as a replacement for existing programs that do that precisely to remove that feature. The article is literally ignoring existing programs that do exactly what it tries to scaremonger about which UBI is opposed to and designed to replace to try to paint UBI as dangerous because it might someday become what the programs it is designed to displace already are. It's FUD designed to prey on ignorance.