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I don't understand why this question comes up so often. If you like your work, you keep doing it even if there's no salary. If you rather do something else, you do that. If you don't know what to do, you explore till you find something of interest. I don't mean to be rude. I'm self-employed and always has been since university 12 years ago, so maybe there's aspects I just don't see.

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That may be the answer. Out of curiosity: Will UHI cover for your work expenses if there is no salary? What roles plays communication in your life and will you be able to continue it? Wondering if all people without forced or available job will be able to find something they like.

> I don't understand why this question comes up so often.

You don't understand because baked into your entire reply is the assumption that a decent standard of living is guaranteed.

Based on current trends around economic inequality, it seems quite likely that the average person may be given very little to subsist on once their main source of leverage (their ability to perform valuable labor) has been removed.

I assumed in this thread that UHI will be delivered as promised, rather soon. Yet, even UBI, or fraction of thereof, is not guaranteed at all. But that's a different story.

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