The value of UBI is it means your ability to survive isn't tied to having a job, giving you a much stronger negotiating position. It's the same as socialized he

The value of UBI is it means your ability to survive isn't tied to having a job, giving you a much stronger negotiating position. It's the same as socialized health care, housing, subsidized or socialized food...if you have to risk your life to find a better offer, it's harder to walk away from the table. In theory, base on supply and demand, jobs should be priced at difficulty * value * unpleasantness Instead, a lot of the hardest, most important, and most unpleasant jobs pay some of the lowest wages, because they default land on the people with the least negotiating power (undocumented immigrants, prisoners, or those so stuck in crushing poverty they have to take the first option they get), and the employer gets to get away with paying well under the "market" value of the labor. So many jobs wouldn't exist at their current price point (if at all), if there was a basic minimum amount of "You can just about get by" money that everyone had.