Poor understanding of UBI. It's a floor. A foundation. All income is earned on top of it. It does nothing to discourage work, unlike welfare that disappears with work. UBI is activating. It is empowering. People fund the work that's best for them, paid or unpaid. They start their own business. They go to school to learn something. They pursue volunteer work and caring for others. Over and over again, the evidence sho…
We have no true idea what things will be like with widespread UBI. Current experiments show some good things only in tiny subsets of the economy. Anything can be priced high enough to be out of reach except to a few, and prices will certainly rise to consume as much of available income as possible. The control enabled by depending on direct government assistance in an era of intense surveillance will change many aspects of daily life and discourse. Perhaps the generations that grow up within it will adapt to not expect anything better.