You are creating a strawman. Nobody says pay me for being cool.

I produce value, in fact we are more productive than ever and are generating more wealth than ever. We do this as a collective not everyone can or wants to have their own company. This wealth needs to be shared fairly. Our goal should be using more and more efficient work to benefit the company AND the worker. You never get your lifetime back.

Without workers putting their lifetime in we wouldn’t have an economy with this mich output. They are entitled to a better life because of it. The economy has to serve us, the majority, the people that give away most of their lifetime to make it possible not a tiny minority.

P.s. I own part of a company, i would be ecstatic about government issued 30 h workweek. We can’t do it on our own since we don’t produce anything, we would just loose to our competition but if everyone had to do it there is no problem here since everyone would have to raise their prices. I want my workers to have the best life i can possibly give them anything else is just evil.

There is no evidence. What we know is that generally, throwing money at poor people will have positive effects, thats it.

We have no idea how prices will react, we have no idea how culture around work might change when people grow up with such a system, we have no idea how employment will change and we have no idea what people will actually use their freedom for.

I am personally in favor of some kind of UBI but not because i believe without a doubt in its positive effects but i believe that the world belongs to all of us and simply being born entitles you to parts of the “fruits of the land” and if UBI really doesn’t work out i guess we might just deserve our fate.

I don’t really see a problem with most of it, 2fa is obviously a good thing and necessary bc people just don’t use strong enough passwords.

Being able to do government stuff at my own home is great too.

Most of these things are for convinience.

I see a problem if there is no alternative way to pay for things in cash.

Surveillance is a different beast alltogether but this comes down to legislation. Countries managed to cut down freedom without any mobile phones at all. This is what we need to focus on not on mildly annoying tech.