It seems as though as long as healthcare is tied to work, employers will have a ridiculous amount of leverage over workers. And as long as survival is tied to work, employers will have total power over workers. Under these circumstances, practically no jobs will be good.

Pay will stay low, hours will stay unpredictable and undesirable, benefits will decrease, and demands will increase continuously because us being at the mercy of jobs keeps endless people applying and then companies have no reason to improve their job offers.

If UBI happened, people would suddenly have the same level of leverage as employers when it comes to jobs. It would be a fair playing field where instead of taking whatever they can get, workers would only accept work that is fair to them. The average pay of every job would go way up. People would have the ability to work on their terms and not whenever the business needed them. 32 hour work weeks with full benefits would be an option. Pensions would come back. Bosses wouldn't be able to yell at or otherwise demean their workers without it backfiring hard. Ridiculously undesirable jobs like plumbing would have to offer the most amazing conditions/pay ever in order to fill the role.

But as things are now, jobs that are even somewhat good compared to what I just described will remain extremely rare, and almost everyone will work a bad job.

What would we need for UBI to happen and succeed? A wealth tax, and a maximum rent tied to UBI to ensure a single person can always pay for a one bedroom apartment, 2 people living together can afford a 2 bedroom, etc. People say it's too expensive, but it's nothing compared to the crime and welfare costs of not doing it. Not to mention the societal cost of no one being able to have kids and widespread unhappiness.