Abstract
A universal basic income can help those most in need not to lose their autonomy. The income that it is capable of providing would be granted out of a moral or social duty, because the work that previously generated it, a source of ancient virtues and benefits, has become irregular and highly insecure. Income would serve as support for the exercise of freedom, it would be a supplement to the salary, and the working class, become precarious, would free itself from the economic control to which it is subjected. Most of the evidence that exists about it is temporary; the discursive assumptions from which its instrumentation starts are very diverse. It is debated whether an anti-poverty income is more expeditious than a universal one against personal adversities and social contingencies.