So if you have the opportunity to stop working and keep being paid, wouldn't you take it?
I'm sure the mayority of people don't want to work. It's not a natural thing to do.
The whole point of UBI is that it keeps incentives for working, as most people - especially the most valuable employees - do want much more than a basic income, - and also supports partial employment (as opposed to things like means-tested welfare). What it would change the most is the situation regarding "shit jobs" which are both poorly paid and undesirable; and if the desperate workers get some alternatives, then these jobs would have to pay more, improve conditions, or not get done if they aren't that needed; and that seems a good effect to me.
Basically I’m for any system that allows people to tell bad bosses to get fucked.
Also a good argument for universal health care.
But many would not need to live with the existential dread of perhaps ending up living under a bridge some day. Or skipping meals just to make rent.
Perhaps some would not need to give up on their lives and education by getting some minimum-wage job to help out their family or because of some early accident instead of going to college.
I am quite certain it could end up a net positive for society as a whole.
Reminds me of that quote:
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
And yes, it would shift the power dynamic in the workplace.