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Companies that depend on underpaid workers will fight this tooth and nail.

• phone8675309 6y ago
  Why? It means that they can pay less than they do now and still retain workers. How is it not a positive benefit for them? It potentially means that people working for them actually want to work and aren’t doing it just to survive.
  • tspike 6y ago
    Because the jobs they're offering are shitty, demeaning and menial, and most people who take them are doing so because they need to survive. Absent the survival need, the companies will have to dramatically improve working conditions to maintain the sheer quantity of labor they require.
    • phone8675309 6y ago
      Perhaps, but the reduced wages (since total income is now UBI + wage instead of 0 + wages) sounds like it will more than make up for whatever increased costs they may have to make the working environment less shitty.