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I heard a proposal that UBI should provide 85% of a solid living wage, people taking it may need to work some (or sell art etc) to reach their desired level of
by wrsh07 10y ago
I heard a proposal that UBI should provide 85% of a solid living wage, people taking it may need to work some (or sell art etc) to reach their desired level of comfort.
Then people pursuing education would receive 115% of aforementioned baseline. The conceit here is that educating oneself is always good. This would, at least, provide some impetus to develop new employable skills.
- mcguire 10y agoBe careful making education to attractive; you risk creating a cadre of an equivalent of otherwise unhappy religious studies graduates.
- wrsh07 10y agoI don't understand your point, but my point was that there are benefits to education even if you're not being trained for a specific job.
- equalunique 10y agoI'm not a fan of UBI. Whatever this proposal is, I do not like it. What incentive is there for real employable skills when sitting back in a classroom is going to give one more than what is needed for survival? People are more likely to take bullshit classes. Real employable skills come from actual employment. If we're going to blindly trust that actual employment will magically provide 85% or even 115% of the cost of living, then we're making a dangerous mistake.
- wrsh07 10y agoI don't think you understand that the proposal for ubi comes from the futurist idea that humans won't need to work anymore. If you take issue with that idea: fine. Let's hash it out not in a basic income thread. If you accept the above premise, then the notion of humans needing employment is absurd.