Education signals that you are "better" than those with worse education. Smarter, harder working, etc.
We need to create better options for students. We can do this by refocusing education on learning practical skills for real world jobs rather than maintaining an educational system built upon a foundation over 1000 years old that up until 100 or so years ago was intended for the elites and scholars, not the average person looking for a job.
As it is structured today, yes it is. The majority of people study Psychology, Sociology, Economics or something of that nature then go on to make power point slides or enter numbers in Excel all day for the rest of their lives.
Enabling this sort of broken system is exactly what UBI as currently imagined will do.
The problem with progressive crusades like UBI is that they completely ignore reality... UBI will only increase the cost of education while simultaneously decreasing its value as a signaling mechanism, which is where the majority of modern education's value lies in the first place.
Let me repeat from my original comment: UBI on a societal scale will only cause inflation without an increase in real income. It's a true waste of money and nonsensical in practice.
That's why it's so horrifying to see people who should know better continue to try to meme it into existence and simply reminds all sober observers how divorced modern "progressivism" is from reality.
The point of UBI is not to fund people's vanity adventures in education. It's to support people who would otherwise be starving or homeless without a job.
Regarding "sickness", the severity is important to know. If UBI enables people with slight depression issues to just give up working entirely, UBI could be entirely counterproductive by accelerating depression's spirals of inactivity.
And this completely ignored the issue of inflation that comes with society wide UBI.
The whole notion of UBI is nonsense. Rather than throwing money at people to spend on broken institutions like Education and Healthcare, let's reform these institutions in the first place to make them more affordable and effective.
We need to create better options for students. We can do this by refocusing education on learning practical skills for real world jobs rather than maintaining an educational system built upon a foundation over 1000 years old that up until 100 or so years ago was intended for the elites and scholars, not the average person looking for a job.