Comment by pault

There's lots of food for thought in your essay. There are aspects of UBI that appeal deeply to me, since I could happily spend the rest of my life reading, making music, and writing software that scratches my own itches, and I've never been very status conscious. If I think about it, most vocal UBI proponents I've been exposed to probably have a similar personality, but as you say, it's not clear that the long tail of the population operates this way.