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I've heard universal basic income may be a viable approach, but I think it's unclear how it scales up as of yet. Regardless, I haven't seen better suggestions

• blablabla007 8y ago
  Governments can either print money or steal money from those who are making them. Anytime I see on HN suggestions that government is the solution my pessimist for the future gets some boost.
• hinkley 8y ago
  What sold me on BI was the concept that every decade the GDP per capita goes up. But we don’t need that product as much which leads to consumerism. If one guy can produce all the stuff for five people what’s the point of the other four working? We could switch to an experience or service based economy, and/or we could give people a cushion that lets them try out a lot of different things. Not everybody knows what they want to do at 9 years old like I did. I watch friends and family struggle their whole lives with this and recognize that I was very fortunate. That said if I had health insurance and programmer culture was a bit different I would work 30 hours a week, get nearly as much done and have more time for family and hobbies.