Universal basic income mitigates tunneling, meaning that people are more able to think beyond just one focus. The need to earn survival income tends to function like blinders that block out everything else but your focus on basic needs. Until they're obtained, we can't think beyond.

@scottsantens I mean yeah, it's basic survival.

...Do well-off people need that explained?

(...I guess the extension to "and that means people can think about politics and whatnot" in the image might not be obvious though.)