Give people UBI and they will, in general, still want more than they have. Poor people want more. Rich people want more. People always want more. If they didn't we would have just stayed at subsistence levels of development.
Cliff just mentioned above that he worked a ####ty job when he was 16. I presume he wasn't homeless then and had parents taking care of room and board for him instead of UBI, but he still worked that ####ty job so that he could enjoy more. Other people will continue to work ####ty jobs so that they can enjoy more too.
The notion that UBI will make the basic drives that are the foundations of capitalism disappear is silly. It would be much less radical in that way than some proponents and detractors of UBI seem to be suggesting.
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