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I’ve mentioned an idea to a friend of mine: a sort of welfare/basic income program where people are paid to talk to others. There is no restriction as to the to
by tareqak 7y ago
I’ve mentioned an idea to a friend of mine: a sort of welfare/basic income program where people are paid to talk to others. There is no restriction as to the topic as long as the other person consents to having the conversation: it can be as mundane talking about the weather. My reasoning behind it was just to get people who otherwise would not talk to each other to do so to actively reinforce my observation that everyone is the same in different ways and different in the all same ways.
- usrusr 7y agoReminds me of the movie Breakfast Club and I haven't even seen it.
- asdfman123 7y agoNah, I don't think many people would get much out of socializing if you made it mandatory to keep receiving their income. I would like to see just less dependence on cars, but I have no way of foisting that on people either. You could be like me and grow up a weird liberal in a red state, but that will give you a complex and I don't recommend it.
- philwelch 7y agoThis is the social value that we used to get from churches, fraternal organizations, bowling leagues, block parties....
- AaronFriel 7y agoSome of those things are more inclusive and diverse than the others. Fortunately there exists a modern equivalent that exposes people to a lot of different folks all at the same time: universities. For many rural teenagers, a university will be the first time they meet people from another country, who don't speak English as their first language, or a sizable number of people with a different skin color. Speaking from experience, growing up in Iowa.
- philwelch 7y agoAnd that brings us full circle back to OP. Most university students are in their late teens and early 20's and once they graduate they never go back. Churches and other social institutions are more lifelong.
- true_religion 7y agoAll of which exist, and will happily take you in if you want. So this is a social value in addition to that, not a replacement for its loss.
- philwelch 7y agoThe degree to which they exist and successfully serve that function has been diminishing, at least in the United States, for decades.
- JshWright 7y agoThose all tend to be pretty ideologically homogeneous...
- wetmore 7y agoBowling clubs and block parties are ideologically homogeneous?