Thoughts
Thinking about UBI. While previously I've been experimentally in-favor, I think it could potentially do a lot of harm by putting a wedge
between the people relying on only UBI and those working. The pitch for UBI is that you don't have to work more than you want to essentially, but I think we would see social classes emerge and companies would be unwilling to hire someone who hadn't been working and had been relying on UBI for the last year. Obviously this would still be an improvement in quality of life for a lot of people, but it potentially would pull some people down. For example, someone who was earning just a little more than UBI by working pre-UBI, probably decides it's not worth working at all once UBI is implemented. This person then, in five years, decides they want to start working again in order to save to improve their kid's education. But they can't get a job because, to an employer, they look identical to someone who has had a drug addiction and has been unable to work for the past five years.
Anyways.
It probably wouldn't be an issue because UBI would likely be low enough that no one would want to not-work for 5 years. Additionally, you would get rid of minimum wage (or half it or whatever), and that would have some effect on what entry-level jobs looked like.