But don't forget, with Basic Income an employer is able to offer a higher overall income without increasing their costs.
Maybe your soul crushing job isn't worth it for $20k, but it might be for $30k. Or you might be willing to work half as long for $20k.
Also, since the cost of quitting becomes much lower, there's a much stronger incentive for employers to provide a decent workplace. And that might not even mean any extra costs. They could just treat employees with more respect than they needed to when you were desperate.
Basic Income means you end up with a real market for labour, instead of a bunch of desperate people taking whatever they can get.
Or the opposite effect. It's at least plausible that with the sort of minimal basic income levels that are worth theorizing about as a practical matter (say, $8K/yr), you're going to have people willing to work that job for $10K or whatever to get them up to a level where they can afford some minimal level of "luxuries." It's been at leas theorized that a UBI scheme would end up being a subsidy for low-wage employers.
Maybe your soul crushing job isn't worth it for $20k, but it might be for $30k. Or you might be willing to work half as long for $20k.
Also, since the cost of quitting becomes much lower, there's a much stronger incentive for employers to provide a decent workplace. And that might not even mean any extra costs. They could just treat employees with more respect than they needed to when you were desperate.
Basic Income means you end up with a real market for labour, instead of a bunch of desperate people taking whatever they can get.