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If we have basic income, why do we need to be educated at all? Just stay home and live minimally.
by JustSomeNobody 10y ago
If we have basic income, why do we need to be educated at all? Just stay home and live minimally.
- dragonwriter 10y agoBecause democracy. One of the major reasons we need education now.
- Fargren 10y agoBecause self-actualization is a human need and for a lot of people education is a means for that. Because some of us enjoy creating things that are of value to others. Because life is more than survival, basically.
- exclusiv 10y agoYou may be right on some, but if it was a good idea you would have said most.
- Fargren 10y agoAre we talking about UBI, or about education? Because if it's UBI, what I mentioned was just one of the mechanisms by which it could work. But I honestly don't know if it would. I suspect it would, but we can't know without more research and tests. Human behaviour is too complex to model a priori.
- JulianMorrison 10y agoPeople like to learn things, if the desire hasn't been regimented out of them and their energy drained to the dregs.