> Public policy shouldn’t accommodate that. Government shouldn’t send the message that disengagement with the rest of society is nothing more than a personal ch

> Public policy shouldn’t accommodate that. Government shouldn’t send the message that disengagement with the rest of society is nothing more than a personal choice. I take the implication of this statement to mean the only way to engage with society is to sell your labor. I find problems with that. Also, as many other posters have pointed out on many other articles related to guaranteed income policies - what people aren't talking about (because they're too tied up in the fact that humans are either [a]only worth what they work for or [b] have value inherently that needs to be decoupled from selling your living hours) is that none of this navel gazing 'no freeloaders' bullshit means nothing in the face of the amount of automation we will see in the next 20 years. Why aren't we talking about that as a society? Because that will be a ton of people who are very willing to work but are unable. That article touches on this, but only very briefly.