> If you're a reasonably engaged software dev (like many on this site) it probably only takes you 10 hours a week to cover basic costs of living in an entry lev

> If you're a reasonably engaged software dev (like many on this site) it probably only takes you 10 hours a week to cover basic costs of living in an entry level apartment. Why would you work more than 10 hours? While I am personally against a UBI, just because I think there are so many innovations right around the corner, which we should achieve first, many of the reasons why you are working over 10 hours a week, would go away with a UBI: - Saving for your own retirement - Saving for your childrens future, giving them a savety net You would also have to check whether a UBI would change some of the motivations to work, due to the culture changing: - If you want to accomplish something as a team, a workplace is a great place to fullfill that need. Less people working fulltime due to other reasons would provide more obvious opportunities here. If you are not really sold by the other reasons and you are here for the team-aspect, you could join the party later, after more groups working together have established themselves. - At least where I live, you could already live relatively comfortable on social benefits. You just don't do it, because it's not accepted socially. So people work, because it is expected of them by society. If society would change it's mind here, e.g. due to an understanding, that not everyone can have a job anymore, that expectation would not force people to work anymore. - (Especially as a male) your job takes a big part in defining your social status. I could imagine additionally to the general trend of women having careers, UBI could chip away another part of that, because now even really conservative, family-oriented women would be less dependent. I am just guessing here, though. It could be that our underlying instincts of what we find attractive are much stronger and a UBI would not change anything here. I personally could imagine for software developers, a UBI would lower the threshold for many to exclusively work on more fullfilling (open source) side projects. I personally have a number in my mind, at which point I might do just that. With UBI that number would certainly be a little bit lower.