>It would seem many would be disincentivized to work
If you want Netflix, eating out at a restaurant, playing Games or any sort of entertainment? If you want a life, you need to work. There is nothing disincentivized against work unless those people want to live like zombies.
I think that's something we can't claim or know without the actual UBI proposal.
If it's half the price to run a robot compared to using a human, then jobs can be eliminated even if the people want to work.
I hate my job. If they started a UBI that actually covered all the basics - food, housing, healthcare, etc... I would quit and I'm not even in a low paying job.
I think the difference is Quality of Life. For example, I consider 1 loaf of bread per day and 1 block of butter per month. Living inside a 6m2 room.
That is what I would considered as basic. It is suppose to keep you alive. Not for you to afford meat, fruit or coca cola. Housing enough to keep you warm and sleep. Not enough space ( hardly any at 6m2 ) to let you move around. And this means workers would have to be treated better now they have an option to quit without begging for food on the table.
Perhaps it should be enough for everybody to get a tiny home or a few for larger families... or Yurts... so maybe it front-loads a bit of the costs into building/infrastructure -- land/lots and building supplies... so you get like 80k worth up front, then just a food card for groceries after that... eventually they work in healthcare too...
It'd have to be some sort of partnership w/ govt and localities to workout making it so people who need homes the most have easier access to them, by freeing up the land, so they don't need to relocate across country or so it doesn't seem like they're being put in concentration camps or something horrible like that... If I live in a rural town, they need to do something to ensure there's homes for everyone who wants one there somehow. If they need to buy or lease land and throw up some 30k yurts, so be it...
On the bright side those who pay higher rents will probably pay less as there will be a lot more rentals available.
I love coding, I hate coding for others. I want an UBI for selfish reasons so I can work on side-projects full-time until I find something that 'sticks' and so I can work on building a homesteading community w/ other like-minded people when I can afford some land.
If you want Netflix, eating out at a restaurant, playing Games or any sort of entertainment? If you want a life, you need to work. There is nothing disincentivized against work unless those people want to live like zombies.