There are people willing to do valuable work for less than the minimum wage - they're called volunteers. A lot of work done by volunteers is more important tha

There are people willing to do valuable work for less than the minimum wage - they're called volunteers. A lot of work done by volunteers is more important than work done by minimum wage workers, but involves no commerce. A basic income provides the opportunity for people to find healthy, fulfilling things that do not pay money. I'm absolutely OK with some types of paid work going away entirely. Our society leans too heavily on the ability to pay someone else to do something at a rate that is usually more than we would like to pay and less than we would like to make. It is essentially a way of saying that we are more important than other people and that's lame. Food delivery, for instance, is convenient, I take advantage of it, but I tip far more heavily than most people, and I could live without it. Some people who deliver for a pay service today may end up, with basic income, volunteering for meals on wheels. That's a better allocation of society's potential energy than to bring me a burrito when I don't feel like leaving the house.