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  Why do you believe that it isn't possible to receive UBI and work?
context: UBI doesn’t replace income. If you’re working you’d get wages plus UBI >
  
  I'm confused- do you think that there is no way to earn additional money? UBI means everyone gets a certain amount of money. This amount of money should be enough for most people to stay alive (food, water, shelter, health). Everyone can still earn money on top of that, but if their passion in life is something that isn't easily monetizable (ie they love to paint but for whatever reason nobody wants to buy their paintings), UBI means that they have the option to survive on UBI and live a fulfilling life by their terms. This is a kind of mobility that isn't based on money, but on human happiness/fulfillment. If their goal in life is to be rich, they can still pursue that. >
  
  I've got a knee problem, right? I work 2 jobs to save money for a surgery my insurance won't approve.
  The world already has the ability to fix me. I just don't have the economic means.
  But I can get there through work (I'm doing it right now).
  In a world where you cannot "get a leg up" economically because you can no longer work because there are no more jobs due to automation and AI, you're just stuck.
  It won't be a utopia where all problems are just fixed for ppl because we already openly exploit the economic lower class, when the world doesn't have to be that way. 
  So 1. If  you think that will change, how and why? And 2. How is UBI not the end of social and economic mobility if you have no further means to improve your life through work and wages? >
  
  
  The world already has the ability to fix me. I just don't have the economic means.
  
  Sounds like a pretty good argument for giving you the economic means (and admittedly for fixing our dumbass healthcare system, but that's another discussion). >
  
  If you are given (random number chosen) $10 for a year. And surgery is $1000, then you're not going to ever "be given the means to fix the problem"
  I can work and get there as the world is today. 
  In a UBI only world, you cannot get what's simply out of your reach economically. There's no mechanism through society to do so