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If I had a basic income, I would spend my days working on exactly this type of thing, with a bit of consulting on the side to earn travel money or whatever.
by mbrock 11y ago
If I had a basic income, I would spend my days working on exactly this type of thing, with a bit of consulting on the side to earn travel money or whatever.
- Godel_unicode 11y agoReally? What value are you assuming "basic income" would take on?
- mbrock 11y agoWell, enough to live a frugal lifestyle. It's an established concept, if you're not familiar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
- flashm 11y agoYou've proven my point. If you had money on a tree, you'd do it, but as you don't (as far as I know!) you won't. I would love to have a basic income, or an endless supply or money and be able to work on what I want, when I want. At the moment I'm not quite there, so have to find the odd day or two per week to work on more interesting 'stuff' than paying bills.
- mbrock 11y agoI wasn't trying to disprove your point! It's interesting that there is this huge contingent of programmers who have a picture of what they would do if they had basic income, and that that picture is very different from what they do at their "day jobs." It's part of why I think basic income experiments are so very interesting. Just this question of what would people do? What new things would happen? How would software change? How would everything else change?
- flashm 11y agoAh sorry that's the way it read, probably my comprehension! It's a very interesting field. I'm not waiting around for it to happen though, especially in the UK which is a very conservative country in the main. I'm actively building my business so that I can take a back seat, or sell it within 3 years and thus spend more time solving different problems (that may or may not have a monetary end-game for me). At the moment they are just side projects!