[samatman]

On the contrary, this demonstrates the major strength of the UBI concept.

Unemployment is means-tested. If you are paid more to not work than to work, it's economically rational to not work.

It's also against the rules of unemployment to keep collecting it when you've been offered a job, but this is difficult to enforce.

With UBI, this isn't a problem: a temporary bump in UBI in response to some future pandemic crisis would be in addition to any work someone could or couldn't get.

Andrew Yang's proposal of $1000 a month should be enough to survive on... maybe. But if someone could make another $500 on top of it, that's going to be a much higher quality of life. I'm confident most people would take that job if they could get it.