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Your 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
by ethbr0 5y ago
Your 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.