>This is why a UBI can raise the national IQ level, reduce stress, improve public health AND make us more productive and make better choices. >A person working

>This is why a UBI can raise the national IQ level, reduce stress, improve public health AND make us more productive and make better choices. >A person working overtime at McDonalds to make ends meet is not benefitting society as much as a person using some of that time on things not valued immediately by the market, such as spending time raising their kids, learning science, contributing to open source software or wikipedia etc. I've come to believe that some types of work constitute an intellectual travesty on a societal scale, precisely for those reasons. People need way more unstructured time than what they're currently getting.