Eh?
There is no such thing as a guaranteed income that can be “done right”. The right thing to do is to eschew socialism and all of its micromanaging regulations, so business and agriculture (the latter especially being the source of self-employment) can be free to flourish.
That’s the ideal.
However, N. American agriculture is being propped up by importation of cheap labour. As you know, that problem is so great in the USA, that it threatens your way of life — if not your sovereignty. Agribusiness continues to flourish, as a result of the “cheap-labour express”, while self-employment in agriculture continues to decline.
Ever-more-rapidly-increasing automation threatens millions of jobs in the service industries (among other things). Increasing the minimum wage, in order to achieve greater “equality” of income distribution, will just eliminate low-wage jobs that much faster. (I’m not a Luddite — I know that all past advances in automation have led directly to greater general prosperity — except for those who lose their jobs & cannot be retrained for newer hi-tech ones.)
Welfare, as we know it today, is anathema to the work ethic. More of that would be just making a bad situation worse.
A guarantee income would enable and encourage everyone to earn more by working. The minimum wages wouldn’t have to be raised, in the name of “equality” — actually, minimum-income laws would be unnecessary.
Sometimes there is no “best” solution — but, a guaranteed annual income would be a “less bad” solution than all the others.