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Here's a sci-fi movie I'd like to see. A (space alien, mad scientist, corporation, imp) unleashes a (bomb, virus, force field, spell) that suddenly removes inte
by hirundo 5y ago
Here's a sci-fi movie I'd like to see. A (space alien, mad scientist, corporation, imp) unleashes a (bomb, virus, force field, spell) that suddenly removes internal resistance from everyone. Whatever intention wins the internal vote gets full control of the rest of the psyche. Everyone immediately starts working full bore on their (world saving invention, romantic pursuit, profit plan, great novel, hare brained scheme) at once, and the (evil, well-intentioned-but-foolish) instigators watch as civilization implodes. Until (Hiro Protagonist) saves the day with a well timed (hack, antidote, counter spell). Making everyone boring again, but safe.
- avaldes 5y agoLike an inverted "Serenity" movie.
- Andrex 5y agoSounds like the setting of The Giver. Their solution to prevent implosion was to give all memories of the old world to one person.
- bob33212 5y agoThis is my biggest problem with all the people promoting entrepreneurship for everyone. If everyone took two years off to start a company there would be no one keeping the lights on.
- whatshisface 5y agoIf everyone started taking two years off to start a company the incentives offered by existing companies would rise until the tide was stemmed.
- codegeek 5y agoDoesnt' matter. Most people won't. I have worked professionally for 17 years now and last 6 running my own business. I can tell you with a guarantee that there are lot of people who just want a job, get a paycheck and get the f out (not that anything is wrong with that). They don't care about entrepreneurship or whatever. So there always will be "employees" for every "employer".
- greggman3 5y agountil UBI?
- codegeek 5y agoI doubt UBI will make everyone stop working. As far as I understand, the point of UBI is to ensure that people are not homeless, have enough to put food on the table and it covers your absolute basic needs. Lets say we implement UBI at 1K/Month which is what people like Andrew Yang proposed. That is not enough to just sit at home all day. You still need to make money but hopefully with that 1K, you won't be homeless (or at least thats the idea).
- corvuscorvid 5y agoI'm confident that there are many, many people who would choose to continue living with no permanent home (tent, RV, etc) and spend their UBI on oxy, meth, heroin or crack.
- SuoDuanDao 5y agoAt least they wouldn't need to turn to petty crime quite so often. And they'd have a means of getting some stability in their lives, which tends to reduce rates of addiction.
- daerogami 5y agoI'm curious where your confidence comes from. Do you know many people pulling in a stable income while also living out of a tent, smoking meth?
- vmladenov 5y agoI’m still not clear on why UBI won’t just raise the price floor on everything (rent in your example) to the point where it becomes ineffective again. In Mountain View, landlords raised rents when they heard companies were giving a bonus for people living within 15 miles. Some even included it in their advertising.
- kwhitefoot 5y ago> there would be no one keeping the lights on. Why would that be? Two years is only four percent of a working lifetime and it won't be at the same time for everyone. And not every company takes two years to create anyway. Another way of looking at it is that two years is less time than it takes to get a degree.
- hprotagonist 5y ago> Until (Hiro Protagonist) saves the day with a well timed (hack, antidote, counter spell). Maybe Babel was the best thing that ever happened to us.