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But we're not talking about 'most' people. We're talking about all people. What about the people who think to themselves, I don't want to work, I want to live o
by Tycho 10y ago
But we're not talking about 'most' people. We're talking about all people. What about the people who think to themselves, I don't want to work, I want to live off welfare. Now there will be more of those people (especially since technology satisfies more and more leisure needs for just the price of an internet connection). Also as people grow up in such a society, they don't have that driving motive in the back of their mind that if they have to eventually find employment to survive. How will such people turn out as adults?
The promise of UBI is saving money and unlocking more human potential (by allowing more risk taking, or letting artists pursue their art, or whatever). But if you think of the need to be productive (for survival) as a force/pressure that has shaped the complex system we call society since the dawn of civilisation, then I can imagine that removing that force in a large nation could result in something extremely dysfunctional or even horrifying.
- leereeves 10y ago> But if you think of the need to be productive (for survival) as a force/pressure that has shaped... That's why UBI is only now becoming a possibility. The need for everyone to be productive is diminishing. The labor force participation rate has dropped enormously since 2000. https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CIVPART https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CIVPART
- sambe 10y agoI would expect them to get bored and find something interesting to do. Could be quite a positive. Regardless, most existing small studies and surveys show few people behave like this or intend to.
- Tycho 10y agoI worry that the small studies and surveys tell us nothing about the real dangers - from interaction and scale effects in a complex system.