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The best argument against UBI – Notes from Naval’s JRE interview
- aiscapehumanity 7y agoThats one of the worst arguments.
- richardreeze 7y agoWhat's worse than removing meaning from most people's lives? If you don't have to work for money, you have no answer to the question "what value do I bring to society?" I see this as much worse than arguments that say "UBI is a slow descent into communism," because those are way less likely.
- aiscapehumanity 7y agoYou say that but existentially there isn't much value. Outside the ethics of suffering avoidance its a murky ocean, this 'valuation'. But honestly trad capitalist society doesnt functionally have room for this value, its incidental as memes and you know it. Go ask a walmart worker that question. They work so they wont starve primarily. If you dont have to work, mostly(Post-work scenario), theres literally more that we do like learning or becoming data conduits. Autonomous capitalism will enable continuous consumers and consumables....