They aren't made-up jobs. They are simply jobs with value lower than minimum wage.
In the US, we are often told about our "crumbling infrastructure". Roads have potholes. It's not hard to find parks which are not as well maintained as they could be. Government buildings are rarely spotlessly clean. If we are going to pay people who can't find a job in the private sector, why not have some of these problems fixed?
Similarly, many people complain that the cost of day care prevents productive women from working. If we are going to tax a productive businesswoman to pay for a basic job, why not at give her cheap day care (provided by low productivity people) in return?
The problem with Communist states is not the existence of the employer of last resort, but the lack of anything else.
Just give more money to you government and it will hire more people to do the jobs that currently it thinks it can do without. Like keeping government buildings spotless.
So the only thing you need to do to realize the idea of Basic Job as you see it is give more money to your government. Pay more taxes. Vote for people that want to raise taxes. Government will gladly use your money to hire people at minimum wage to do the jobs that have value lower than minimum wage. Or just move to Sweden.
Of course other people will say that government pays to much for cleaning parks and government buildings and filling in potholes. That it's not done as efficiently as it should be. And they will also be right. After all, why invest in labor saving technology such as cleaning machines if half of the point why this cleaning job exists is to have an excuse to give money to the person that can't find a job that has value higher than minimum wage.
So you don't want to give money to the people who currently are not gettinga any? You just want to discurage people who are getting money by ordering them to do some work?
Where do you get money to pay people to organize the job and supervise that it's actually done? How do you treat people who don't do the job right? Do you deny them the money and the job? Do you put them in jail? Communist states did that.
What do you plan to do about people who won't take the money if they have to lose third of their time for it?
Do you give those people money/food/shelter for free or do you let them starve or freeze?
I believe your idea is incredibly complicated in detail. I like the idea of basic income because there's so little that can go wrong. The only proble I see is that rent could just go up and suck almost all basic income into pockets of property owners.
In the US, we are often told about our "crumbling infrastructure". Roads have potholes. It's not hard to find parks which are not as well maintained as they could be. Government buildings are rarely spotlessly clean. If we are going to pay people who can't find a job in the private sector, why not have some of these problems fixed?
Similarly, many people complain that the cost of day care prevents productive women from working. If we are going to tax a productive businesswoman to pay for a basic job, why not at give her cheap day care (provided by low productivity people) in return?
The problem with Communist states is not the existence of the employer of last resort, but the lack of anything else.