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Ultimately a bunch of people would just rely on UBI from birth to death. I don’t think that is a bad outcome. We live in a society advanced enough to be horrified by just letting people die/starve.

Or they could just work and do all those things that only interest them but can't earn money in their free time like everyone else?

But there are already people who earn money in their free time like land owners and people must work and give up some of their income so that the landowner gets paid for something that was already there and whose biggest benefits are provided by the community surrounding the land.

The free loaders that you seem to criticize already exist and nobody seems to have the desire to stop them.

Honestly I am so pissed off by people like you. If it was as easy as just working then we wouldn't have any problems whatsoever in our economies. The fact that there is structural unemployment due to how money works and that full employment reveals that there are rent seeking entities in the form of accelerating inflation should already tell you that the current system isn't working.

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