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Most people on Hacker News are really not any different from anyone else in their country - they're just in a different line of work. The idea that you're a bet
by vertex-four 9y ago
Most people on Hacker News are really not any different from anyone else in their country - they're just in a different line of work. The idea that you're a better/more moral person if you get paid more is a fallacy.
An interesting question is "can we reasonably automate things that people currently get paid less for than a basic income would be, or will we have to pay them more, and if we have to pay them more, what will be the economic effect of that?"
- LoSboccacc 9y agoIt may also work by making basic income really basic, so there’s an incentive to still go out there and specialize.
- icelancer 9y ago>>Most people on Hacker News are really not any different from anyone else in their country - they're just in a different line of work. The idea that you're a better/more moral person if you get paid more is a fallacy. People on HN are significantly different and not even close to a representative sample. No one at any point is saying that HN readers are better or more moral, but there are huge, huge differences in technical skill, intelligence, knowledge, college attendance rates, social skills, empathy, and so forth compared to an average sampling of the population of the United States. I'll leave it up to everyone to decide which direction the arrow points in the above fields.
- IncRnd 9y ago"The idea that you're a better/more moral person if you get paid more is a fallacy." You are making arguments against things I never wrote, which is a strawman fallacy.