It seems to me that basic income could make me either (1) fall victim to depression, addiction, or some other mental disorder, or
(2) find a hard problem to work on which keeps me occupied and satisfied for a lifetime.
The reason people become drug addicts or alcoholics is that it's painful to be outside of the social culture. And work is the social culture of our time. It's the only thing that makes people feel relevant. We need to invent alternative forms of feeling relevant.
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard" -- JFK