Just came here to say that the tired argument that UBI &quot;start[s] creating some pretty powerful disincentives to work&quot; is really just old at this point. What someone that trots that out is saying is that more people would be able to forgo wasting their lives in menial jobs and instead create art and new businesses, or stay home to raise a family or care for elderly parents, as if either of those is somehow morally wrong or shameful.<p>There will still be incentive to working - cars and houses and jewelry and iPhones and etc and etc will still cost money, likely above what a basic income gives you (except for the most basic apartment and car maybe). But people will be able to choose to not work in deplorable conditions or for terrible wages or for below minimum wage because tips, and won&#x27;t have to live in constant fear of losing a minimum wage job and losing the leaky roof above their family&#x27;s heads, or going bankrupt when your kid breaks his arm.<p>When people claim UBI will disincentivize working, they mean disincentivize being taken advantage of by a system meant to keep them under foot and under served - and that not willingly participating in such a system is somehow morally reprehensible. Which I find morally reprehensible.