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Either automate them (or otherwise redesign them to need a minimum of work: there's no need for hot-water sellers today, for example); or do without (possible f
by clock_tower 10y ago
Either automate them (or otherwise redesign them to need a minimum of work: there's no need for hot-water sellers today, for example); or do without (possible for domestic servants, not for garbagemen); or pay lavishly enough that these jobs are tempting even if you've got a basic income already. A world with UBI isn't a world without money and stock markets, after all...
- bkmartin 10y agoBut they weren't talking about paying lavishly... it is this idea that we all have no "jobs" and only do things that we want to do... the only way to get people to do undesirable things is to incentivize them in a way that what they get is worth more than the inconvenience of doing that thing... so I agree... some sort of reward... sounds just like what we have now.
- gnaritas 10y agoNo, what we have now is that people are forced to work at wages they wouldn't accept if they didn't have to; that's vastly different from a world where basic survival is not at risk allowing actual choice.