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Can you explain why those are contradictory? Surely some people will opt to not have a job at all, if they didn't need to worry about maintaining a minimum qua
by mertd 10y ago
Can you explain why those are contradictory?
Surely some people will opt to not have a job at all, if they didn't need to worry about maintaining a minimum quality of life and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
- k__ 10y agothere are more than enough things to do that help society, which aren't done at the moment, because no one pays for them.
- merpnderp 10y agoI often see a lady riding her RoundABout scooter, on disability, picking up trash on the side of the road. She's incredibly nice and good hearted, and hates sitting around doing nothing. But the reason I stopped to talk to her was that it is unbelievably unusual for someone who is obviously on disability to be out doing something for the common good. And unless you have some hard data showing people on public assistance use their free time doing the unsung dirty work society needs, I don't believe it will magically start happening if we change the name of welfare to UBI.
- ethanbond 10y agoNot sure how that's relevant. It's pretty clear the proposal is "require people to do the handiwork of their community in order to receive a basic income."