UBI is dead; guaranteed long-term income Hudson, New York and Gary, Indiana, Compton, California . Since the year SEED’s first-year results were released in March, Tubbsi has often been asked what he has learned. “I’m tempted to say nothing,” he told me in late March. It means that the pilot didn’t say anything that was already obvious to him: from personal experience, he knew that there weren’t many stereotypes about poor people (especially poor blacks) that were “rooted in reality”. Tubbs was born in Stockton to a teenage mother and a father who was a prisoner. He went to Stanford with a need-based scholarship, and returned home after graduating. He was soon elected to the City Council when he was just 26 years old before becoming mayor.