Because computers now exist...? Register your bank details and get an automated monthly deposit? No one would agree on a system that requires you to stand in line for actual cash. Agreed that the lifestyle to be supported and the amount required might be contentious, but you don't have to wait in line at the Post Office to get your old age pension any more. Obviously it would all be digital/automated.
not everyone has a bank account... the is more likely for the poorest in society, the ones who this fabled UBI would benefit the most. Or does bi only matter when you benefit from it?
They dont have to agree to it, they just have to stand in line for it. Americans stand in line everyday, at the coffee store, at the bus stop, in their cars when they drive behind the car in front of them, when they go voting, even the DMV has a line...
You make America sound like the third world. Really. I cannot believe that you're making "not everyone has a bank account" into a serious objection. Here in the UK, less than 5% of people don't have bank accounts, and this figure has fallen massively from 22% in 2000, and IMO we can expect it to keep dropping until it's near zero. Computerisation has led to the cost of providing banking services decreasing enormously, and in 2000 banks were obliged to provide a 'basic bank account'. (You can find out more about what that is here:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/banking/basic-bank-accounts but basically anyone can open one and it has no initial fees and basic services like direct debits, a debit card and getting cash out.) So at least in the UK, no problem for digitally transferring UBI to a bank account because anyone who doesn't currently have one can walk into any high street bank and open one free of charge.
Also, there is a huge difference between queueing being necessary for physical things to be transferred from one place to another ("at the coffee store, at the bus stop, in their cars when they drive behind the car in front of them") and for things which can be done on a computer with no physical presence required (our DVLA, the UK equivalent to the DMV, allows you to do everything online or by post). Part of the rationale behind UBI is that automation is making a large number of jobs redundant - UBI basically embraces that idea and says "Hey, no problem! You don't need a job to get money any more because the machines will do it for us!" If we live in that kind of world, making UBI a digital bank transfer rather than wads of used fivers to be collected every day from some centralised bureaucratic control point will be a piece of cake.
Furthermore, once UBI was introduced, "the poorest" wouldn't be cripplingly broke any more. I'm not saying UBI doesn't have big problems (see my post upthread), but "poor people are too poor to have a bank account so they won't be able to collect UBI" is a really pathetic argument. Seriously, if we can work out how to introduce UBI, I'm sure we can work out how to provide the most basic banking services (deposit money, withdraw money) to everyone to avoid USSR-style queueing.
Make it a miserable experience to collect ubi, they will find working a job to be "easier" money and not dependent on ubi. When congress want people who get food stamp to pass drug tests, who are you to say "make it easy" to collect welfare?
I'm really unclear on the scenario you're imagining where the government proposes UBI, the country as a whole votes in favour of UBI, the government happily passes laws to enact UBI, and then suddenly everyone wants to make it really cumbersome and bureaucratic to get. Why would a government ever pass a law to enact UBI (one of whose main principles is a reduction in the bureaucracy compared to current means-tested welfare systems) and then immediately put in place a similar level of bureaucracy? The whole point of UBI is that EVERYONE gets it, so it's NOT welfare, so it's in EVERYONE'S interest to make it simple to receive and administrate.