That <i>involuntarily unemployment</i> leads to unhappiness is completely irrelevant in a discussion about UBI, which would only <i>allow</i> unemployment for those who wanted it - while allowing others to work.<p>In my second sentence, I implicitly agreed that some people might feel more dignified by working. The bourgeois moralism comes from using that to justify forcing everyone to work, as if dignity had to be imposed on people, those brutish sinful beings who have to be saved by those who know better.<p>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.