If you take a literal definition of "nobody", this is 100% wrong.
UBI should only give you a bare minimum. Cheap food. Cheap housing. Cheap clothes. The bare essentials, with very little discretionary income.
There are a lot of people where this is all they want. They have no ambitions. No life goals. These people would take UBI and not work.
But most people want more. They want better food. Better housing. More entertainment options. Funds to fuel a hobby. Money to travel. These people will still work. And they'll be happier about it, knowing that they don't have to work.
Minimum wage jobs are filled with people that can't get anything better and are just taking what they can get. You could swap them out with people that are there because they want to be.
We don't even have it yet and already we are seeing people complaining that the proposed amounts are too low. It's pretty obvious to anyone who has paid attention to the current situation that this rate would immediately become a/the major political issue and would get ratcheted up preceding every election.
How is it different than any other political initiative? There several ways to objectively/scientifically establish an amount that matches the poverty threshold.
If you take a literal definition of "nobody", this is 100% wrong.
UBI should only give you a bare minimum. Cheap food. Cheap housing. Cheap clothes. The bare essentials, with very little discretionary income.
There are a lot of people where this is all they want. They have no ambitions. No life goals. These people would take UBI and not work.
But most people want more. They want better food. Better housing. More entertainment options. Funds to fuel a hobby. Money to travel. These people will still work. And they'll be happier about it, knowing that they don't have to work.
Minimum wage jobs are filled with people that can't get anything better and are just taking what they can get. You could swap them out with people that are there because they want to be.