> Work, but work less (adjust according to demand as needed, adjust compensation as necessary).
"Hey Kek you are a programmer right?"
"I am indeed"
"We need you to work 80 hour weeks because we don't have many programmers, don't worry though we will give you another half ration to make up for it"
"No, i'm only going to work 20 hours like the street cleaners"
What does this fictional UBI government do then? Put a gun to my head and force me to work seems to be the most common solution to this problem historically. The problem is all human work can't be divided evenly among all humans, we need doctors more than we need fast food workers thus doctors typically work longer hours. For the system to be "fair" we can't pay doctors all that much more than fast food workers, maybe 10% - 15% or even 100% more but not the 1000% more they see currently. What if doctors decide that isn't enough and all become fast food workers instead? What do we do then? That is the problem UBI and Communism has yet to solve.