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>What, people are going to stop wanting luxuries? Yes, check out /r/financialindependence There's thousands of people living frugally to retire early with ~1-
by home_boi 10y ago
>What, people are going to stop wanting luxuries?
Yes, check out /r/financialindependence
There's thousands of people living frugally to retire early with ~1-2 million which is basically UBI over a lifetime
- dragonwriter 10y ago"Thousands of people" isn't a very large portion of the population.
- aninhumer 10y agoWanting to be financially independent doesn't necessarily mean you want to completely stop working. It just means you want to choose how you spend your time.
- maaku 10y agoThe point is if you sum up what people would want to do with their time, there's no reason to expect that in any way corresponds with what the allocation of resources should be to keep the engines of the economy moving / achieve maximal societal benefit / whatever. It's a classic tragedy of the commons situation.