Comment by sunshine-o

Maybe it is just one personality type but I believe "skills" and what you do or figure out yourself is at the core of happiness and self esteem.

- The food you grow, fish, hunt and then cook taste better

- You feel happier in the house you built or refurbished

- The objects you found feel more valuables

- The music you play make you happy

- The programs you wrote work better for you

etc.

This is just how we evolved and survived until now.

This is probably why an AI / UBI society would probably make worse the problems found in industrialised / advanced economies.