Here's an example: vouchers vs. one size fits all public schools. They're not opposites; vouchers just free up resources by using market forces to prevent good money to go to bad schools.

There's two sides:

(1) Collecting the money used, and (2) And choosing how to spend money for the benefit of the beneficiaries.

Both basic income and traditional welfare rely on government for #1, true. The difference is in #2.

It has less knobs for politicians to twiddle.