Speaking as someone with a million things they want to work on, but who has been bouncing off the edge of burnout since early 2020, the new “UBI doesn’t mean people will stop working, they’ll just work on what they want to” talking point is just so very, very exhausting.
If someone needs (or hell, wants) to take a UBI benefit and use it to pay bills while they sleep 14 hours a day and do nothing else because the demands of capitalism have destroyed their brains, that should be fine too. UBI should not be an excuse to perpetuate hustle culture.
