Slacking is what the current system conditions the long-term unemployed to do. That is, the alternative to UBI here isn't "no income"; we already have basic in

Slacking is what the current system conditions the long-term unemployed to do. That is, the alternative to UBI here isn't "no income"; we already have basic income in Finland, though it's highly dependent on enduring various activation measures that are mostly useless in providing actual employment (and, in a few instances, have turned out to be sweat shops that use the unemployed for unpaid labour). Accepting a low-income, part-time job tends to result in the automatic loss of several months of basic income, though the pay from such job might be significantly less - so, in a situation where there aren't enough jobs to go around, the rational thing to do is to avoid any actual work and to simply keep jumping the hoops. The proposed UBI models are aimed specifially at unraveling these "welfare traps" and at reducing the attached bureaucracy.