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The arguments against chapter doesn't mention what seems to me to be the killer reason - that people are very bad at enjoying life without a compelled purpose.
by lopmotr 7y ago
The arguments against chapter doesn't mention what seems to me to be the killer reason - that people are very bad at enjoying life without a compelled purpose. Doing work gives us the motivation to pursue our hobbies. Being useful keeps people sane. Having a lifetime of free food, shelter, and consumption of entertainment would be torture. That's the sort of lifestyle that leads to drug addiction, suicide, crime.
If there really are going to be a lot of unemployed in the future, that itself is the problem, not their lack of income.
- erobbins 7y agoBased on a sample size of 1 (me), I don't think that's a reason at all. I took a year off once and being able to to whatever I want every single day was awesome. I went back to work because I needed money, not because I wanted to.
- lopmotr 7y agoBut did you build things or work hard to develop some skills or otherwise feel like you're improving something? Or did you scroll through Facebook and drink alcohol all day? Many people don't have an interest in anything fulfilling.
- aey 7y agoDo you have any statistics to back that? Poverty sounds like the more likely cause of all those things than basic income.
- maxander 7y agoThis argument works only if you consider those of us lucky enough to have interesting jobs, which we had some hand in choosing. Do you honestly believe that the person who cleans the toilets at your work thinks that this labor gives his life meaning?
- cwbrandsma 7y agoYet those jobs still need to be done.
- maxander 7y agoThat’s the other thing- they still would get done. All the jobs we really need would stick around under UBI and we would have people working them. We would just have to pay them more, since their other option wouldn’t be starvation.
- adolph 7y agoMaybe some do, maybe some see it as a means to a different meaning. https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/29/janitor-secretly-amassed-an-8-million-fortune.html https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/29/janitor-secretly-amassed-an-...
- lopmotr 7y agoHe might not believe it, but it may well be true if the alternative is watching TV all day.
- bellerose 7y agoPeople manage without the difficulty you claim. Others are not privileged to even have hobbies because of the financial burden while employed. People should be able to choose what's best for them. Otherwise life is torture.
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