Many people are hopeful about the idea of universal basic income, and if there were a referendum on it I would probably vote yes. But it's not where we should be pinning our hopes.
It's perfectly possible for UBI to coexist with a total dystopia. As more jobs become automated, UBI could keep us in a state of suspended animation, neither living nor dead - but surviving in involuntary idleness and atrophy, competing fiercely for precarious work that lets us live properly for brief periods.
Once UBI is introduced, the markets would likely respond by making it practically a necessity to survive.
This would be compounded by the state attaching certain conditions to UBI, producing a powerful tool of control. The state will demand that you be resident in the country to receive it; accordingly, states will demand that you be resident there for at least 10 years before offering it, reducing people to financial prisoners in their place of birth.
@batko The latter happens with welfare now. Transforming it into UBI would at least take away the stigma/pressure to get a job.