> My point is - there are plenty of jobs where you absolutely will quit and not work if the basic income can provide a sufficient su I'm neither arguing for no

> My point is - there are plenty of jobs where you absolutely will quit and not work if the basic income can provide a sufficient su I'm neither arguing for nor against UBI here, but from my understanding, you description is not of UBI. Here you are saying income as a substitute for work. Where as UBI as I understand it is provided independent of work. Meaning that by your spouse quitting she would be losing half of her income. Maybe she still makes that trade off and quits and the program needs to raise wages to keep people. Or maybe she stays in place for the pay (with abuse). Or maybe the programs doesn't raise wages and has worse/fewer employees as a result. But it doesn't sounds like the situation you describe is UBI.