I think that it is very easy to think that giving people a baseline-income will take the motivation to work away from them, but there’s a reason there is so muc

I think that it is very easy to think that giving people a baseline-income will take the motivation to work away from them, but there’s a reason there is so much interest in this area from the most philanthropic among us. Jordan Peterson would not be against the simple research and testing of this idea, in fact he would probably encourage it. The worst that we could find is that people somehow lose the motivation to be productive in a society that gives them a basic income. The best we could find is that when people have to worry less about surviving, first level of Maslow’s heirarchy stuff, that they are free to use their energy elsewhere and in different ways. Imagine the number of potentially influential people out there that are bogged down by the fact that their rent just went up 25$ per month and they can’t afford to pay it.