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Hear hear. Anytime there's any discussion remotely related to income, welfare, healthcare, startups, creativity, the basic income evangelical squad shows up in
by tannhauser23 10y ago
Hear hear. Anytime there's any discussion remotely related to income, welfare, healthcare, startups, creativity, the basic income evangelical squad shows up in full force. As if Hacker News readers will suddenly quit their jobs and do 'what they really want' if government writes them a $15k check once a year! Most people in this board can make $15k in a year right. now. They can do that living anywhere. But then the whining begins, 'Oh I don't want to move to X because there's nothing to do there', 'Oh that place Y? It's full of [insert people assumed to be ignorant and evil because they have different political beliefs, and they don't eat organic]', 'I need to be close to Z', 'I have a family', blah blah blah. None of this is going to change if the government starts shoveling cash out to anybody and everybody.
- ant6n 10y agoMany tech people take sabbaticals to work on creative projects or open source it just leaving, using savings from previous years as a form of "minimal income". I'd say many would like to have more people to have this sort of opportunity, which is currently only limited to the very privileged.
- ribosometronome 10y agoIt seems you're misunderstanding what people mean when they talk about that freedom. It's not that we can't already earn 15k doing _something_. It's that we can't earn 15k working solely on a pet project for a few years. Think Stardew Valley -- the dev relied on being a movie usher and his girlfriend's grad student stipend to get by.