[akvadrako]

> The first one is that I think work is a fundamental aspect of personal life and people feel deeply rewarded for being compensated for it.

That's a reason to like UBI.

(1) It allows more people to work. Current social programs discourage work because earned income reduces benefits; not so with UBI.

(2) It allows more meaningful work. People aren't so desperate they need to take any job and we can safely drop minimum wage, making it affordable to hire people for less commercially viable tasks.

[pindab0ter]

Makes me wonder what will happen to the parts of the economy that rely on jobs that people aren't lining up to do. I can imagine fast food getting more expensive, for example.

[username90]

It could also get cheaper as a minimum wage is no longer required when you have UBI. People would work because they want $$$, not because they have to. This means that for many who would want to earn $2.5 an hour working a low stress job to pay for some simple extra things they can do so.

[ulisesrmzroche]

That’s what robots are supposed to do, right?