&gt; The problem it doesn&#x27;t solve is what people will do with their time.<p>How is this a problem? Don&#x27;t people solve that individually, by doing what has the most utility for themselves?<p>&gt; I&#x27;d like to see a requirement that everyone work.<p>Either (1) you don&#x27;t need this, because everyone will have work available that pays something that they are willing to accept for their time, or (2) such a requirement is mandated involuntary servitude.<p>In neither case does the requirement seem desirable.<p>&gt; One source of work could be a government website that can provide jobs for people that don&#x27;t have them, with pay for the work just being the basic income - workfare.gov.<p>If basic income is conditioned on doing qualifying work, its fundamentally different from the unconditional basic income generally proposed, and instantly avoids the advantages flowing from the <i>unconditional</i> part of the proposal.