I agree, but for this attitude to work, we need to recognize that this situation won't happen by itself. It will take massive cultural shifts, a lot of money, and a lot of time. We've already seen what happens to communities when all the jobs leave, and help isn't sufficient (imagine any crumbling city). It's a lot harder to, for lack of a better word, rehabilitate those communities after they succumb to generational poverty.

I think a much better alternative to UBI, which is just a modern twist on bread and circuses, would simply be larger inheritance taxes that are kept by the state. That way work that actually contributes to human betterment still gets rewarded, but society doesn't begin to stratify into rich and poor people in a world where it becomes almost impossible to move from poor to rich.

That said, your idea isn't mutually exclusive with UBI. One interpretation of UBI is that it acts more as a social safety net than as a long-term solution.