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I think you are way over estimating the amount of meaningful work, as well as how many people with meaningful work would be on basic income. Most of the people
by JamesBarney 9y ago
I think you are way over estimating the amount of meaningful work, as well as how many people with meaningful work would be on basic income. Most of the people on basic income would be people who were previously flipping burgers at McDonald's not directors as 80000 hours.
- criddell 9y agoYou have to think longer term. Eventually, there may be very few jobs done by people. Medicine, law, many fields of engineering, agriculture, and even film making and novel writing may be performed by machines at a level as good as or better than the best people. But yeah, in the next decade it's burger flippers and delivery drivers.
- emodendroket 9y agoTo the extent those people have some sort of crisis it sounds more like anxiety over loss of status.