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UBI is supposed to cover basic needs, no? It doesn't mean you'll get the funds to cover the things you do to stave off boredom or fill your life with meaning. Thus people still work making, installing, and doing the less pleasing jobs, but there's no longer the "work or starve in an alleyway" pressure in the background. It also provides leverage against abusive employers, as you don't need the job to make rent and groceries. (Though people are willing to withstand a lot of abuse to reach their goals as well)
Yes. You're still going to need to reward those people in some way that isn't generic feel-good or worthless karma. People won't go "I'm on the UBI and all my needs are met, but I'll go build water pumps where one in fifty might get used in a pharma application just for the feel-good".
I always think of the worst jobs that exist and how there would need to be incentive beyond feel good for those jobs to be worked. Think what you'd see on the show Dirty Jobs. Most of these are jobs that need to be done but nobody would want to do them without additional incentive