[endriju]

Basic income introduces a few drawbacks:

- talented people will not need to do consulting or daytime jobs to support their startups or side-project, which can lead to them living in a bubble

- there will always be people who spend all their income on gambling, drugs, sex, whatever - with basic income they just have more cash to waste (although this could be controlled somehow)

- low-skilled jobs aren't going anywhere soon - how do we want to motivate people to do jobs like garbage collection or road maintenance - this is already a problem in countries with exuberant social systems like France

[maxerickson]

Garbage collection doesn't need to be a low paid job. 1 garbage truck can service thousands of homes with just 1 driver (and bins that are designed to be grabbed by a mechanism on the truck). So you could pay a fantastic wage with a very modest contribution per home.