I'm still not settled on whether I think it's a good outcome, but my understanding is that we'd have to pay more to get people to do these jobs and I'm not sure

I'm still not settled on whether I think it's a good outcome, but my understanding is that we'd have to pay more to get people to do these jobs and I'm not sure that's altogether a bad thing. If you've got a tedious job that you need doing, at the moment there are four options: * Pay enough that someone wants to do it. * Make the job sufficiently interesting that someone wants to do it. * Do without. * Rely on someone needing the money enough that they'll do it anyway. Basic income removes the last option, adding extra incentive to the others. I've never been in a position where I've been forced to take a job doing something I hate for too little money just to get food on the table, and I'd very much prefer never to be put in that position. I don't want to put other people in that position either.