Convincing whoever's in charge of checking up on that sort of thing that the world is better off if I stay inside at least 40 hours a week.

Free comp sci tutoring (which I often do anyway), make free courses and hold seminars, and make significant contributions to open source! That would be such fulfilling work if I didn't have to worry about money.

Grow food

Teach. I already teach and I would continue to do so even if I had enough money to retire. I just love seeing young people discover the joy of programming and 3D modeling.

To be completely honest, my life wouldn't change at all.

That is just so nebulous that you could almost do anything.

I am a hobby phographer, and I consider my photos mere existance as making the world a sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiightly better place.

I won't pretend that I am amazing at photography, but some fantastic pictures would not exist without me, there would absolutely be almost identical photos in existance, but not mine.

I like driving, so I guess I could be a driver for road trips in Europe, not in a bus, but in an estate car, artisenal road trips as you say, that would provide more good to the world than me just going to road trips alone and keeping most photos to myself.

Where is the threshhold for what is considered good to get the money?

I would work as Chef in a communal restaurant where we cook the rich. Freshly served and hunted by ourselves.

Arguing with people on lemmy, people are wrong and the internet and the world totally needs my opinions to correct them.

I was an Ocean Lifeguard for several years after high school. I would do go back to that. Service to others fulfills that contract to make the world a better place. I loved that job, and I know I impacted several families for the better during that time.

Taking freely licensed photos in the summer. Open source software development in the winter.

Probably just spend more time contributing to foss projects. Maybe write technical documentation.

If the job I already do does make the world better does that count or do I need to work 80 hours a week to get something that's 'universial'

I'd just keep doing my job instead

Same thing I do now but with a fatter bank account

• Maker space / repair cafe
• Community garden
• Picking up trash (Put on some music. Get to be outside. Allowed to trespass and get thanked for it)

I already do, I'm a teacher. But if I could do anything to get paid, I'd run free English classes and conversation clubs for refugees

Picking up trash

Same as now. My 40+ hr/wk making the world what it is, pays much better than any UBI. Until there’s a better solution for affordable housing and healthcare for my family, education for my kids, and retirement for me, I’m staying in the rat race

I think I'd take a few years and destroy all the "grass" lawns in the country, replacing them with native plants that don't need manual watering or chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Then I'd destroy a lot of vehicle infrastructure and replace it with high-speed train, bike, and pedestrian infrastructure. Then I'd probably just jerk off and go to concerts for the rest of my life.

Political organizing and education. Most problems, especially economic and societal problems are rooted in political causes: bureaucratization, consolidation of power, bottlenecking, corruption, etc.,

Only active participation in democratic organizing of mass movements along class concerns has ever been effective at combatting these social illnesses. This starts and ends with educational development. We are kept weak through confusion and ignorance; which leads to division, opportunism, fear, and alienation.

I’m a mechanical engineer product designer so using that for where I can to protect coral reefs

How much is the UBI? Can I live off it comfortably? I'd probably contribute to society by spending the money thereby supporting the economy /s

I’d try to find ways to use my skills as an industrial engineer to help the environmental movement, possibly trying to retrain. Then I’d also spend like 10-20 hours a week recycling bicycles