I’m not sure where you get the assumption that a UBI is funded by printing money. Most proposals I’ve seen are funded by taxation. The UBI proposed by Charles Murray (in https://www.amazon.com/Our-Hands-Replace-Welfare-State/dp/0844742236 ) is entirely funded by existing welfare and social spending (by redirecting them to a UBI).
I’m not sure where you get the assumption that a UBI is funded by printing money. Most proposals I’ve seen are funded by taxation. The UBI proposed by Charles Murray (in https://www.amazon.com/Our-Hands-Replace-Welfare-State/dp/0844742236 ) is entirely funded by existing welfare and social spending (by redirecting them to a UBI).
I’m not assuming money printing or increasing the money supply in general, only increasing the supply of money that recipients have access to.
Money printing seems like one, probably especially bad, way to create UBI, but other options seem better.