There may also be ways to rearrange the labor if insufficient people wan to step up. For example, there are places where garbage trucks lift trash cans to dump

There may also be ways to rearrange the labor if insufficient people wan to step up. For example, there are places where garbage trucks lift trash cans to dump into them. If that is too difficult, one could setup dumpsters at the end of neighborhoods and have a truck that goes dumps that stuff into it. So more work for the individuals. Similarly, if there were not people to clean offices, then have the office workers do it (assuming there are offices, of course). For things that are really essential and cannot be done away with, the cost would go up. It seems reasonable to pay more for vital services. That may mean higher taxes or some other payment arrangement, but it is only regressive if the taxes are done in a regressive way. There may also be deflationary effects (namely eliminating the giant waste of BS jobs): https://medium.com/@austingmackell/the-deflationary-effects-of-a-basic-income-bf882c6c981 https://medium.com/@austingmackell/the-deflationary-effects-... A UBI would change the job market. But whether it is a distortion or fixing some externality cost that was distorting the market is certainly debatable.