If you want a living, earn it. If you want wealth, earn it. Might not happen with your favorite school of craft, but the vast majority of people don't/can't make money doing something they are passionate about.
So far every experiment in UBI has shown that almost everyone getting it does something useful with the money and doesn't just sit on it.
And frankly, I have no problem with paying someone to sit on their ass drawing lines, if it means they aren't starving and homeless.
Why don't you? I am sure that you can support at least one such person with your income
Please don't expect everyone else to have the same generosity
Even if that only kill half the positions, we're still looking to a situation where humans overall don't have anything attractive to the market, if you can't earn a living wht would you do?
Quite a few of us already do that for people who don't even so much as draw lines on paper. (cough cough landlords cough cough)
No I don't. I receive a temporary lease to something of value that is fundamentally necessary for meaningful existence in modern society. Landlords are pure middlemen - and while there's a place for middlemen in society to provide initial capital, at some point that value dwindles down to zero as that initial investment is repaid, and then dwindles past zero as the landlord continues to parasitically rent-seek despite contributing nothing that the tenants themselves could accomplish for far cheaper.
Your retort to my retort would be valid (or at least actually equivalent to your cheeseburger analogy) if - in exchange for my rent checks every month - I received ownership stake in the property and/or the company that owns it. Such an arrangement has more in common with a housing cooperative than with a typical landlord/tenant relationship.
When "earning it" takes much more than it used to due to technological shifts or otherwise, the only ones who can afford to walk the path toward mastery are the very well-off. This of course violates the modern western liberal ethos of equality for all, particularly in regards to educational pursuits.
We end up with a McDonald's worker class, their menial profession determined from birth, and their noble masters.
Maybe c'est la vie and there's nothing we should or even can do about it. But it's unpleasant, to say the least, knowing there's an entire class who's destined from birth to perform cheap menial labor their whole lives, without the slightest hope of doing anything else. After all, slavery is necessary for civilization, always has been.
I can accrue money doing what I'm doing - they can't.
A lovely principle. We can start by taxing all inherited wealth and using it to compensate people who do essential but underpaid jobs, like teachers.