&gt;That involuntarily unemployment leads to unhappiness is completely irrelevant in a discussion about UBI, which would only allow unemployment for those who wanted it - while allowing others to work.<p>A) Nobody much really <i>wants</i> voluntary unemployment. Not for extended periods, anyway.<p>B) Involuntary unemployment still exists with UBI meaning you still get most of that unhappiness.<p>C) It&#x27;s not like we&#x27;re short on useful <i>work</i> even if we are flooded with bullshit jobs and unemployment. We just have a really wasteful allocation of labor.<p>&gt;The bourgeois moralism comes from using that to justify forcing everyone to work, as if dignity had to be imposed on people<p>A job guarantee isn&#x27;t forcing anybody to do anything and it isn&#x27;t imposed on anybody. It&#x27;s an <i>offer</i> of a job to anybody who wants one.<p>&gt;And by the way, this moralist view is probably one of the great culprits for the effect shown in your links - like those people in the Philippines flogging themselves until their flesh is raw and bloody, we can do terrible things to ourselves when we&#x27;ve been convinced that we&#x27;re lesser human beings.<p>Economic policies that enforce idleness are only going to contribute to that.