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The point of basic income isn't to remove anyone from the workforce though; it's to decouple people's basic necessities from their work. They'll still want to w
by dataflow 5y ago
The point of basic income isn't to remove anyone from the workforce though; it's to decouple people's basic necessities from their work. They'll still want to work to get a more comfortable lifestyle. In fact it seems entirely plausible to me that the less people have to stress about basic necessities, the more they could focus on work.
- ethbr0 5y agoYour statement converts to 'no one will be satisfied with basic necessities." Which is false, in my experience. Some people absolutely will be, and they won't work.
- dataflow 5y agoNot quite. I'm not saying that won't happen for anyone. I'm saying that's not the goal, nor would it be necessarily true for the kind of person mentioned.
- ethbr0 5y agoFair, but I think it's a good bet to say that people who aren't (for lack of a better word) "present" at their jobs would be perfectly fine not being there, if they weren't required to be. And I know HN is fairly skewed towards people who want more from life, but there's a lot of people who just don't. And I feel like they'd be over-represented in an opt-out-of-work cohort, if a basic income allowed for it. I don't imagine a person like that goes into work saying "I'm going to do a bad job today." I think they just don't value the work they do enough to try to do it well. And they'd rather not, if that were an option.