“Nobody wants to work anymore”; “But if you give people UBI, they'll sit around and do nothing”.
Nah, I think almost everybody wants to work. I think people naturally want to spend their time doing something useful or meaningful or challenging. I look at my friend's list and see people writing novels and playing music, doing art and making stuff, gardening and cooking and canning and pickling food, restoring old cars and houses, volunteering for a hundred different causes, contributing to dozens of open sourced tech projects, teaching, raising children, and doing all kind of work that benefits themselves, their loved ones, and their communities.
What we don't want is to sacrifice all of that to “earn a living”. We don't want to spend 40+ hours wasting our lives for someone else's benefit just to prove that we deserve to survive, while all of the important work goes undone because it can't be squeezed for profit.
So tell me- What work do you want to do? If you no longer had to “earn a living”, what would you do for work?