You’re missing the point. This article is proposing an alternative to UBI, where you are just giving no strings $$$ handouts to all citizens. Clearly basic jo

You’re missing the point. This article is proposing an alternative to UBI, where you are just giving no strings $$$ handouts to all citizens. Clearly basic jobs won’t be as efficient at producing e.g. agricultural products as the free market. But that’s not the goal with UBI or UBJ - it’s to deal with societal inequality in a world where increasingly most jobs are eliminated and those who control capital (the robots) have 100% of the wealth and everyone else is starving. That is the world many feel we are heading towards. There is a good track record of government jobs programs during times of severe unemployment, e.g. the Great Depression: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps One advantage UBJ over UBI has is that it is something you can transition into; it doesn’t require a societal level disruption to put into practice.