Oh no, that’s not what I meant at all. I keep hearing that a basic income will allow many people to stop working to follow their passion. I was pointing out that your instrument was probably not created by people following a passion, but rather as just a job. Those people would like to quit too, and you’d end up with no instruments.

The problem as I see it is 90%(?) of work that takes place on a daily basis really is needed. So even if everyone had a basic income, we’d have to pay and entice those 90% of workers back into the workforce. Now they have their basic income plus their work income. If everyone has more money, but the same amount of goods and services are still being produced, it will just force prices up to the point that those on basic income are back where they started.

And in fact, I’d say we’ve already done it. Everyone today is probably making $30K more than similar demographics of people were making in 1920. Are they living well and not needing to work? No. Inflation ate up all increases in wages. Same thing will happen with basic income.