UBI without a basic safety net for health care is a non-starter. It's not a substitute for a welfare state. Without it you are on an ever escalating probability

UBI without a basic safety net for health care is a non-starter. It's not a substitute for a welfare state. Without it you are on an ever escalating probability curve towards destabilization. As for people not "being productive" with their UBI...I hate to break to everyone but the vast majority of people involved in corporate America are not productive at all. There is more make work and duplication and accountability avoidance built-in to corporate life to protect people's income than people involved in valley startups could possibly understand. Because the stakes are so high around unemployment, accountability becomes a very dangerous proposition. Projects are designed to put potentially career ending actions on consultants or outside parties that assume that responsibility as part of implementation contracts. It's crazy. If there was a UBI and social safety net that allowed people to pursue interests and not force them to take jobs that they dislike and cling to for dear life...everyone will be better, and I promise the people motivated to perform will still be performing, they just won't have people in the way that don't want to be there. It will also stop hiding the cost of getting high performance employees. People won't have to take employment to survive.