That's not true. We have $10k tax revenue per capita, an average household size of 2.6, and the bar to get out of poverty for households of 1-4 is $12k-25k.
UBI would be a big cost but you could have an enormous impact with a program that increases the federal budget 50%. And if you set your break-even point to something like $80k of income then half that money is immediately recaptured in taxes, so now you only have to source 25% more money.
You’ve conveniently made an arbitrary division of 2.6 to hide the fact that a doubling would be required if UBI were truly universal, allowed people to quit working, and didn’t place restrictions on household status (as you just did).
I would find it easier to move countries and change citizenships than to avoid the tech giants.
>It boggles my mind
It boggles my mind that you wouldn’t put any effort into understanding the view rather than sitting around pontificating about how boggled you are.
The key different between large governments and a large company is that only large governments wield the monopoly in violence and involuntary taxation. It’s still trivial in the grand scheme of things to avoid using Google/Amazon/Apple without breaking the laws. Good luck refusing to pay into the US government as a US citizen.
Once Amazon gains the power to garnish wages and imprison people for failing to subscribe to Amazon prime, then they will be on the same level as the government. Until then they are just another fish in the pond that can be avoided.