Part 1 explores several recent basic income pilots launched around the world and analyzes the results, which show participants improving emotional wellbeing, growing businesses, and spending more time with family. It debunks myths that UBI discourages work. Part 2 examines scalability questions for longer-term national UBI adoption, discussing potential unintended consequences as well as proposals for hybrid models. It concludes that nuanced, evidence-based UBI policies rather than polarized rhetoric are needed to provide economic resilience for an automated future economy with inequality strains.