the moral objection to UBI, if that’s the right word, is that people deprived of work will suffer from existential angst because all meaning and purpose will have vanished from their lives. Without work, they will suffer a paralysing identity crisis and find it impossible to fill their days, and having to rely on a UBI will only make matters worse. Their sense of meaninglessness can only be cured by jobs – even if we have to invent them. There are a number of possible responses to this, some of which are polite enough to be printable.
