Ever notice how working dogs usually aren't as neurotic as pet dogs? I've never met a well-mannered Pomeranian, but even if you get a dog of a stalwart herding breed and leave it idle, it's going to go nuts and run around nipping at little kids and tearing up your house.

That's the hell of the rural farming and working class in America today. Proponents of UBI and the like assume that, if they're freed from the burden of pulling their own weight economically, people will move on to "higher pursuits" like art and philosophy and the like. I think there's a clear upper-middle-class bias in these discussions where people genuinely don't understand that other types of work can still provide meaning and purpose and fulfillment to people.