Reddit mentions of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Yang's plan for UBI is opt-in, so it would not hurt anyone getting more out of their current benefits. However, it can have many benefits for them over current welfare programs. UBI is no questions asked, which means recipients can switch over from welfare programs and avoid the burdensome compliance, monitoring and restrictions enforced by those programs. In the book Automating Inequality, the author outlines many of the issues with current welfare programs, and how they use automated systems to systematically discriminate and trap the poor, restricting their freedoms and creating convoluted incentive structures. At the end of the book the author makes a case for replacing these bloated programs with UBI as a way of lifting people out of poverty. Obviously Yang's policy is not enough to completely achieve this goal and replace welfare, but it's a first step in the right direction.