> I'm still yet to understand how a lot of relatively poorly paid work that probably still needs to be done, gets done under UBI. To flip it around, right now

> I'm still yet to understand how a lot of relatively poorly paid work that probably still needs to be done, gets done under UBI. To flip it around, right now we keep a huge number of people so immerserated they will do all sorts of bullshit for a little wage. Is that a solution? My personal belief is that there is huge potential technical progress, but it is stuck in the research phase and cannot get to development because with so much weak cheap labor, there is no reason to automate. But with UBI, and people able to say "no, fire me I don't care", that will shift, and suddenly those investments will become valid. I am very excited for that as a programmer. To restate, Andrew Yang and his ilk have it dead backwards: It's not UBI because unemployment apocalypse, it's unemployment utopia because UBI. However, say I am dead wrong, and technology doesn't pick up the ball. We might have to cut back on certain luxuries that are no longer affordable. We might also need to "ration" certain un-fun jobs with like a chore rotation --- think civilian 3 years guaranteed service. But this seems good. This is the type of stuff that keeps society honest and fair, and I think will rebuild ties between humans. Besides these 2 options, the 3rd view is society needs to exploit certain people, hereditary for maximal learned helplessness, to function, and there is no alternative. You can believe that, but you better be honest to yourself if you do.