Actually, no. People need jobs to occupy their time with something "good" and productive. Otherwise they will fuck around and do stupid shit. This is severely exacerbated by the existence of social networking, as well.
I will agree that people do not need to work as much as they currently do, but they do need to be useful to society. Idle hands are devil's workshop. That much should be clear as a day by now, even to the skeptics.
Your comment defines a person's benefit to society as being strictly equivalent to their utility to the market. But society is more than the market, and a person can be productive and create value for society beyond that created for an employer.
The point of UBI is that work should be a choice. People who aren't capable of finding value in life outside of work can work, and find that fulfillment. It just shouldn't be necessary for survival.
A person's utility to the market is the best tool we have to measure a person's benefit to society. The measurement is not perfect, market valuation obviously has blind spots, but what's UBI's alternative? Throw it all out, let people choose whatever they want?
I agree that grueling work shouldn't be necessary for survival. And people who can't or won't work for whatever reason shouldn't be left to suffer horribly or just die. But that's why I support welfare. UBI doesn't pressure or even incentivize people to create value for society. Doing no work at all should not be an easy choice.
I did not say _anything_ about "the market". "Society" is not the same as "the market". I'm talking more about the need to productively occupy people's free time so as to not let them spend it on harmful bullshit instead.
Work should absolutely NOT be a choice. If it is, easily 90% of people will never get off their couch, because why the fuck bother, and you can't survive on the productivity of the remaining 10%. I know because I'm one of those people, and so is my wife (who currently spends easily 8 hours a day scrolling through Instagram and watching Netflix). Eventually you will run out of other people's money. Not only that, but it'd also destroy people psychologically and make them feel worthless.
Work should be a requirement for all people who are able to work. Again, clearly the amount of time we currently spend on work is unreasonable. At present, if you work you can't properly raise children. This is fucked up. But to make it a "choice" is a clear path to societal decay and eventually unrest.
Even communist societies understood that: "from each according to his ability" doesn't mean what people think it does - it means that if you're able to work, you must work. In the USSR it was, in fact, against the law to not be employed if you're able.
I will agree that people do not need to work as much as they currently do, but they do need to be useful to society. Idle hands are devil's workshop. That much should be clear as a day by now, even to the skeptics.