One of the great promises of the Basic Income idea is that within many domains, it eliminates project funding as a constraint,
with the anticipatable outcome that a great many people "waste" their time on uninteresting, incorrect, ludicrous, ideas,
and a few people who might have been fundable today, do solid real work,
and sometimes, a few people who would have NOT have been fundable (per OP), do work which Changes Everything, which might not have been done today otherwise.
Those of us reading this, we live in a surplus economy.
We could fund everyone.
Indeed, we should, because it would over a reasonable time frame, pretty likely Change Everything.
All it would cost is fewer 100m long yachts for a few thousand sociopaths.
with the anticipatable outcome that a great many people "waste" their time on uninteresting, incorrect, ludicrous, ideas,
and a few people who might have been fundable today, do solid real work,
and sometimes, a few people who would have NOT have been fundable (per OP), do work which Changes Everything, which might not have been done today otherwise.
Those of us reading this, we live in a surplus economy.
We could fund everyone.
Indeed, we should, because it would over a reasonable time frame, pretty likely Change Everything.
All it would cost is fewer 100m long yachts for a few thousand sociopaths.