If there were a basic income, I might quit my job and look for a new one full time, rather than looking in my spare time, increasing the chances that I would find a better fit between me and the new company. There must be some utility or public good in that.<p>That might also provide some needed competition for lower wage&#x2F;skill jobs, since they&#x27;ll have to compete with scraping by on basic income. As it is now low wage employees are disposable and disrespected; &quot;flexible&quot; schedule means something different at Best Buy than at my current engineering job.