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Street cleaning could continue to be an employable, paid task - and for people to choose to do it, it would have to be paid competitively (or be enjoyable enoug
by jka 6y ago
Street cleaning could continue to be an employable, paid task - and for people to choose to do it, it would have to be paid competitively (or be enjoyable enough for the person) relative to passive base-level UBI.
A community desiring clean streets could allocate some of their UBI funds towards that goal. A community that doesn't could use those funds elsewhere.
The goal would be for communities to acquire what they need and desire, rather than to try to employ everyone in society even if their assigned roles would involve useless work.
- rumanator 6y agoMore importantly, UBI creates incentives for soul-sucking jobs to become better or even desirable. Society should not rely on it's ability to coherce the less fortunate to sacrifice their lives performing horrible jobs just because it suits the fancy of a minority.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoI don’t understand this idea that cleaning jobs are somehow inherently horrible.
- rumanator 6y agoWould you switch your current job to work as a street cleaner? Or a garbage collector? Or a McDonald's server?
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoSeriously mate, recently the thought has crossed my mind. Here in Australia we have a liveable minimum wage, and I don’t earn that much more that it’s inconceivable.