Giving workers bargaining power in wage and work condition negotiations is only a good thing, absolutely. It should be obviously unfair to the vast majority of

Giving workers bargaining power in wage and work condition negotiations is only a good thing, absolutely. It should be obviously unfair to the vast majority of people that you bring two people to the table when you apply for a job (in effect, at least) - a capitalist business owner seeking to profit and accumulate wealth through markets, and someone who doesn't want to starve or go homeless. Those kinds of negotiations are anything but fair. UBI would see a dramatic shift in the valuation of jobs, in the ways employers can treat their employees, and in what work society values having done. I postulate often how I believe a lot of the tremendous flow of working into the advertising and service sectors has been due to the subconscious social desire to avoid the collapse of work, so we produce fictitious work with minimal or no net productive gains or utility to keep people busy. There are millions of white collar workers who wake up every day in fear of their job being replaced with software, and of truckers fearing the inevitable self-driving vehicle revolution on the horizon, because we are not starting on the path towards automation, we have been on it for decades, we have simply subliminally skewing our society to try to compensate for the implication that real productive labor has been moving out of the hands of human beings for a long time now.