I'm curious as to how a whole global, or even national society, can function on a UBI if that society were to use an asset like Monero or even Bitcoin as the new currency.
This will probably be the most unpopular post ever in the Monero thread, but why would you want such a thing to happen? Cryptocurrencies are rent seeking usury systems. Yea yea, Monero is one of the best of the worst, but they are generally all worse than gold and silver. Smooth doesn't seem to be all that bullish on cryptocurrency in the first place so I doubt he will even bother trying to put up an argument against this, but I'm sure people like Icebreaker and Articmine will try:
http://steemit.com/bitcoin/@r0achtheunsavory/the-r0ach-report-18-the-great-pow-lie