A UBI won't change things that much. The key word in UBI is "Basic". If I could get $200k for doing nothing, then yeah, I'd just get myself a nice place and v

A UBI won't change things that much. The key word in UBI is "Basic". If I could get $200k for doing nothing, then yeah, I'd just get myself a nice place and vacation and work on some interesting FOSS projects on my own, and if I get pissed off at the other collaborators for some reason I'd quit and go find a different hobby project. But that's not what UBI does, and UBI wouldn't work (at least not in the near term) if it were like that. UBI is a basic income: it gives you just enough so you're not starving or living on the street. I don't know about you, but I don't really want to eat cheap, crappy food and live in the ghetto. So even with a UBI, I'm going to want to have an unhappy job so I can afford a nice place and a nicer lifestyle. I can see the UBI making it so that fewer people take really crappy jobs though: poorly-paid jobs that are dangerous or just plain miserable. Why work for some asshole boss, perhaps working in a hot kitchen at some greasy-spoon restaurant, if you can just sit at home with your UBI and not deal with that stress and hot grease splattering on you? Sure, working the crappy job will give you more money than just having the UBI, since the job doesn't take away your UBI, but if the job is that miserable, it'll either go unfilled or the boss will have to pay more to get people to want to bother with it. But software development is rarely that bad, and is much more highly paid due to its difficult nature. They're not going to have much trouble, under a UBI system, finding people willing to do boring ERP system development for 6 figures.