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Obviously I'm no Bill Nye, but I'm partial to this Naomi Klein quote:

More fundamentally than any of this, though, is [deniers’] deep fear that if the free market system really has set in motion physical and chemical processes that, if allowed to continue unchecked, threaten large parts of humanity at an existential level, then their entire crusade to morally redeem capitalism has been for naught. With stakes like these, clearly greed is not so very good after all. And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that as soon as they admit that climate change is real, they will lose the central ideological battle of our time—whether we need to plan and manage our societies to reflect our goals and values, or whether that task can be left to the magic of the market.

If you can live comfortably on $10K, go for it. Given your lack of ambition you probably wouldn't be a very good employee anyways.

Do you think a country will institute a UBI in the next, say, 10 years? If so, which, and what conditions will lead up to it?

Signal processing and DSP programming, definitely. Music theory.

It's easier to be entrepreneurial if you have a back stop.