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I don't know. Sometimes a job is just things like cleaning the portable toilets at job sites. I'm not sure there is much pride in that. I'm not even sure there are lots of useful skills there.

Sometimes work is just work, and not everyone gets pride from "A job well done".

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Then why not charge people to do those kinds of jobs more? Or encourage companies to make the jobs less unpleasant and more fulfilling? A UBI means that workers have more power to be picky about where they work, which puts pressure on companies to improve conditions.

I've done a lot of jobs, some crappy some great. I always got pride and a sense of meaning from the fact that I was doing that instead of staying at home playing videogames.

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