" I have to take time out of my day to do something I'd pay someone for. " But apparently you wouldn't pay enough to have them do it, so it's more valuable to

" I have to take time out of my day to do something I'd pay someone for. " But apparently you wouldn't pay enough to have them do it, so it's more valuable to you to use your time to do that job. If you paid more, you could more effectively utilize your time. "So, if you get $20k per year as a livable wage (figure just chosen for easier math) and a job would've paid $25k, you get the $5k difference in your paycheck. This would help keep the low-interest, but easy, jobs staffed." So you would only be getting paid 5k then. If I don't work at all, I get 20k. If I work, I get 25k. I think that's what you're suggesting. Unless you're suggesting you get nothing if you don't work, at which point we don't have a basic income anymore, and this idea is moronic.