People whose work is not often compensated under capitalism, like full-time caretakers and homemakers, would have their own means of income, though some might say the social value of their labor is not recognized in any meaningful way under UBI, when a person could sit around all day binge-watching Netflix and eating chips and still receive the same income. The payoff is having a means of income no matter the choice or circumstances of a person’s career.How could UBI impact women? that the policy will be a necessity in the future as robots do more and more manual labor. Photo by: Mary Evans/PANDORA CINEMA / FLOWER FILMS / ADAM FIELDS PRODUCTIONS / GA/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection first floated by mathematician and political activist Antoine Caritat way back in 1795