Would you live on universal basic income to have total creative freedom?

I'd like to alternate between professional & my hopeful open source projects.

I don't think UBI would give me the quality of life I'd like, but it would definitely help me carve out & spend more seasons & years of my life doing the really really ultra-high grade important & hopeful Personal Computing Revolution shit I want to get up to.

If everyone is on UBI, then who is getting the work done?

Seems to me there needs to be some more constraints on the idea to be realistic.

Maybe Strategic Basic Income? Eg: Executive branch gets coal miners on it for X years to let them retrain to work in another industry?

Or Universal Income Grant? Everyone gets X years no questions asked, you choose when to check them out. When you run out, sucks to be you.

I'd much rather have that last one as an option than UBI that's not going to motivate me to do anything by removing the natural urgency of scarcity. When everything is abundant and easy, why change?

If I could live off ubi, I would still build software, but it would be the software I want to build and not the one that pays the most.

To be honest, it is hard to refuse free things.

But I prefer to work part time on simple non-prestigious jobs, to fill my needs, to be independent, and all other time work on future projects.

This is not only question of pride, but this is absolutely other view on world.

And I could only be responsible for my own behavior. For others, I know from experience, that large percent of people play fair, but not all, and need some measures against those people, who don't want to play fair. Who interested, google free-rider problem.

If everyone is on universal basic income…. Where would the money come from? Who will do the work? Wouldn’t that be extremely inflationary?

At what standard living? I somehow doubt that any UBI is going to provide more than a poverty level of existence. I'm not trying to live in a hovel with three roommates so I can avoid paid work.

If the UBI was enough to provide a good standard of living, it wouldn't remain that way for long as the inflation would hit incredibly hard probably very quickly.

Absolutely not simply because I don’t like a basic lifestyle. I love snowboarding in Colorado or going to Broadway shows in NYC. I love my Tesla and treating myself to concerts and sporting events. I eat out for nearly every meal. A basic income won’t suit my lifestyle.

Why decide now? The whole point is that I would have the freedom to start and stop, as I wished. Maybe I'd get into a good, useful routine on Basic. Maybe I'd get itchy feet and start a company, or crave structure and get a 9-to-5. Who knows?

Yes. UBI could provide a framwork to work side projects that don't succeed monitarily but provide a learning experience for the next project. Collaboration with other UBI creators from multiple diciplines is key, in my opinion for a succesfull project depending on goals and scope. Create self imvestment with exploration and experiencial education. UBI shouldnt necessarily be a paycheck, I find that the security of a private living and working space as well as in incone of food, healthcare etc. Supplimented monitary standards with increases depending on economics and project success.

No. I love work. It gives me a sense of pride to do a good job.

I was happy serving burgers at McDonald’s. I took pride in making a good sandwich.

Now I’m happy in tech. I would never want to not work in tech.

Probably. Honestly, if America has universal health care, I probably would cut down my work significantly and focus on things that I like to do.

Honestly I don't feel free when I am dependent on someone else/org/govt/grandma giving me pocket money. Just very uneasy all the time that the spigot can be turned off any moment. Its usually only after I have saved up a bit, do I feel more free.

Yes. It is my dream to be free (sleep anytime primarily) and just hack on things. Live somewhere remote with land/some water. This assumes I can still buy things like electronics/tools for the project.

It's not a dream I'm working towards it just slow.

100%

The music project I'm working on right now requires significant investments in time and effort. A considerable weight would lift off of my shoulders if I didn't have to think about being able to pay my rent and food.

Absolutely. I have no ambitions though, and don't desire anything special out of life. I doubt many feel the same.

I am already doing that, but I provided the money myself (by saving and then retiring early at 40).

Assuming I could also pay off my student and car loans? Absolutely.

Absolutely

Yes.