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Which early adopter program for UBI illustrated laziness? I'm actually opposed to UBI because I think everything is relative and it's really just upping the bas
by rapind 7y ago
Which early adopter program for UBI illustrated laziness? I'm actually opposed to UBI because I think everything is relative and it's really just upping the baseline, but from everything I've read it hasn't produced laziness in practice.
- nostrademons 7y agoThere were experiments done in the U.S. in the late 60s and early 70s that showed a moderate (17% for women, 7% for men) reduction in work areas: http://www.bostonfed.org/economic/conf/conf30/conf30a.pdf http://www.bostonfed.org/economic/conf/conf30/conf30a.pdf It should also be noted that the same studies showed general increases in health (particularly mental health) and in education, so this is not an unambiguous loss. My point is that usually when you fix one metric, you introduce losses in other metrics. There's no free lunch (and if there were, people wouldn't work as hard to feed themselves).
- pjc50 7y agoImproved mental health while doing less work should not be described as laziness! Individual have a sustainable workrate, and can exceed that for short or medium term periods, but at the cost of long term health. Calling "not exceeding your long term sustainable rate" "lazy" gives you something like the Japanese salaryman culture.