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Why do you assume that not being paid means that no goods and services will be produced?
by TuringTest 9y ago
Why do you assume that not being paid means that no goods and services will be produced?
- gaius 9y agoBecause many things that are pleasurable or satisfying to do for yourself are not so much when you scale them. That’s why people get paid to do them now.
- TuringTest 9y agoThat's a reason for ''some'' services not being done, not all services not being done.
- gaius 9y agoSure, I’ll grant that, but what of jobs that aren’t automatable, but are essential? If this is a serious proposition then we can’t handwave it away.
- TuringTest 9y agoYour original question contained the assumptions that, with an UBI, no services will be created, and no one will be paid for services. None of these are a necessary consequence of people receiving an unconditional amount of money regularly. People can still may want to work for luxuries, or I might want to pay others to sway their personal projects in the direction I prefer. Plus, maybe some services may be "essential" only under the current working scene, but might become less so if everybody adjusted their way of life to a slower rate of consumerism (buying more virtual goods rather than physical, traveling less, working from home, buying local, etc). A lower income level could be sustainable under those conditions, if some percentage of it is guaranteed.