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This only makes sense if the required busywork can be done at little additional cost and doesn't come at the expense of useful activities you might otherwise employ.
For example, if you need to drive into work every day, then you waste a lot of energy/money burning fossil fuels, wearing out your car, wearing out the road, etc. for no economic benefit.
If you have children that you put in daycare (often also subsidized) then perhaps it would be better for society if you took care of them yourself instead of working a bullshit job of little economic value.
The philosophy behind UBI is that while giving people a guaranteed income may decrease economic activity, it would improve society in other ways: people have more time for exercise and cooking from scratch so they become healthier, they will have more time for reading so they will become better informed, they will create art, they become more active in the community, e.g. volunteering to maintain parks, pick up litter, caring for the elderly, and so on.
I'm a little skeptical about the extent to which these things would actually happen, but a clear prerequisite is that people actually have the free time and energy to do those things. That means you cannot put UBI recipients to work on useless activities, or you have all the downsides and none of the upsides.
I don't think that would improve society at all.
Sure, but given what the above would result in (and how limited applications of this in free societies have all generated this problem), UBI is incompatible with a society built on equal rights- the golden geese generating the productivity will not survive.
At least the Communists (and socialists more broadly) are honest about this (as are the "you will own nothing and be happy" WEF-ers).
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