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That's what it's always sold for. Instead of staying in soul crushing jobs in order to survive people could pursue new things and be creative.

• fastball 7y ago
  Right, the emphasis being on "pursue new things and be creative". UBI is generally not intended to allow people to live out their entire lives without doing anything of value for anyone else. And if you're doing things that are valuable to the rest of society, you are paid under capitalism. So the hope with UBI is that you should never need it for your entire life because you're not making any money at all.
  • Ididntdothis 7y ago
    What do the people do if their new thing doesn’t work out? There will be plenty of these. If UBI isn’t life long then it’s more like giving everybody a sum of money which they can use to start something new. If they cant fall back on UBI then it’s exactly the same situation as we have now where a lot of people stay in careers they hate because they are afraid of losing what they have.
    • fastball 7y ago
      There already are those people. UBI does not create more failed people. 15 years is a long time. 2 years can be enough to try something new for a lot of things. If it doesn't work out, you can go back to the career you had before, or maybe even find one you hate slightly less. Or maybe you didn't hate your job, you just wanted to try something new. If it doesn't work out, go back to the job you liked well enough.