What about nationalised utilities? Legal restrictions on profit margins? You know, government actually doing stuff that benefits ordinary folk and punishes greed instead of rewarding it?

Of course if you introduce UBI, some people will promptly give up even trying to work. Such people are, generally speaking, unsuited for work anyway - nobody really wants a lazy employee.

No good. I can't put it all in a comment. I'll have to do an article or something.