Damn, man, you took that to a dark place! LOL, yeah there are some definite dangers inherent in the idea of a govt supplied UBI. But how else are people going to survive once AI makes so many of us redundant? There has never been a human capacity to not do what technology allows us to do, just because it unemploys many people to do it. Only in the past, technology has created new jobs. So there is disruption, but eventually people are employed, just in new ways. AI is a different type of technical revolution. It makes people unnecessary for anything other than manual labor.

As for laziness, that's what I've discovered doesn't happen. I'm not lazy though retired, and I see lots of people now out of work and unable to even look for work who are also doing a lot of volunteering. The danger is for young adults.

I remember how hard I had to work to build up useful skills in my 20s. I wanted to help, but couldn't do anything that was actually helpful. I'd been trained to pass tests and write good essays, to digest information and even apply critical reasoning in formulating new solutions. But what I didn't have was life experience and the ability to apply my knowledge in a way that created better outcomes in any way.

It took the necessity of "earning my keep" to force me to stay in jobs that taught me the things I needed to learn to actually be of use. If I had had a UBI, despite my desire to help the world, I might have given up before I got to where I could actually help.