A lot of people discuss UBI from two angels.<p>Either 
<i>&quot;people will mostly work but it&#x27;s a better way to secure those who do not or cannot&quot;</i> Or <i>&quot;a lot of people become lazy and don&#x27;t want to work, why would they when they get money for just sitting on their hands&quot;</i><p>However thats the wrong perspective for this.<p>UBI is a potential solution IF you believe that most jobs will be gone which also means that most taxation schemes like income tax will be gone to. If you are still thinking about this as a solution to getting jobs back or there aren&#x27;t enough people to pay for it then it&#x27;s already a dead discussion.<p>So the key premise for this discussion is not whether it will solve our job problems or whether people will be lazy and not pay income tax. The key premise is that the productivity gains and price decreases by automation is used as some of the leverage for society to build a self sustained ecosystem for humans to live in. Where technology is a kind of photosynthesis that allow for the distribution of goods and wealth even though everyone mostly ended up working with producing said good.