Incentives matter, as they say, so I'm sure you're correct to some degree, but by how much? Don't forget about the importance of relative status. At least some

Incentives matter, as they say, so I'm sure you're correct to some degree, but by how much? Don't forget about the importance of relative status. At least some -- my guess would be a large majority, but part of the problem with these discussions is that everyone's just doing WAGs without much real data -- folks will want a) better than average educations for their children, b) nicer houses in safer than average neighborhoods, c) etc... and will work quite hard for it. And since these are positional goods, UBI will have no impact on their availability. Personally, I tend to think that UBI is untenable for mostly other reasons (extraction by rentiers, for example).