Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Saudi setup a lot more like a government "jobs" guarantee where the job was rather pointless. The lack of ability to do a real job without giving up the zero stress bs job would certainly seem to breed a lack of work ethic.

UBI, on the other hand, rewards anyone who works on top of the UBI supplement. There is no need to choose between working and getting the "free" money everyone else is getting.