I think it is great they are studying UBI, but I agree with you in that giving people work is the way to go. I believe it goes by the term "workfare" (as oppose

I think it is great they are studying UBI, but I agree with you in that giving people work is the way to go. I believe it goes by the term "workfare" (as opposed to welfare). There is always more work to do, the problem is people may not be willing to pay enough money to have it done. If the government is paying out the money anyway, there should be something productive coming from it. I think this is good for the country and for the people doing the work. In the past it took a big investment to do something like workfare (like building the Hoover Dam), but now just about anyone could do work by sitting at a computer. It could be anything from project management (there would be a lot of that, with the system itself), accounting, "customer" support, or even helping supervised learning for AI research (by identifying cats). And you could even allow people to identify the work they want to do, if the have something worthwhile they want to do.