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There's a big gap between "Food, housing, and health care is provided to all" and "take whatever you want, man".
I think that UBI and capitalism are helpful, BUT the latter should solely be for luxuries, such as McMansions, vacations, gardening, media, or Ford-2500 mega trucks. Capitalism is horrible at caring for society, but is excellent for fostering individuality. Problem is, our overlords conflate society and individuality as being the same.
What we need is to prevent necessity and luxury from mixing. Money should be purely for upgrading lifestyle, not a determination of whether you get to eat, rest, have family, or receive healthcare.
There's a big gap between “Food, housing, and health care is provided to all” and “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
The former is free existence, the latter demands work as the price for societal support.
What you are wishing for is basically fully automated luxury gay space communism and that cannot exist outside of a true post scarcity world. We do not live in that world.