Why it would be your responsibility to work harder? In fact, you could also decide to work less.<p>Your comment is based on misunderstanding of what actually is money. Money is just a claim for some commodity, like resources or work; it&#x27;s not a commodity in itself. From microeconomic perspective it is interchangeable, but not from the macroeconomic one.<p>In fact, under UBI, someone may decide to pay you more money exactly because you&#x27;re willing to work hard. If you really have the choice of not working, you will have to be more incentivized (with money) to actually work.<p>In reality, UBI is just a different money redistribution scheme (compared to capital investment), nothing changes much for people who work. It won&#x27;t however make the people who invest and live from rent (capitalists) very happy, because they will get less of the pie to compete for.