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It won't. It's only poorly paid because there's a power imbalance - the tradeoff is "do shit work for shit money, or starve to death". UBI removes the "or else
by groby_b 5y ago
It won't. It's only poorly paid because there's a power imbalance - the tradeoff is "do shit work for shit money, or starve to death".
UBI removes the "or else clause". Which will fundamentally shift how we pay for work - instead of overvaluing rare skills, we will value willingness to do the work that needs to get done.
It doesn't necessarily lead to inflation because UBI doesn't automatically mean all jobs will pay more. There's a likelihood that many BS jobs will go away - i.e. nobody will want to be a bagging clerk in supermarkets, because you couldn't pay enough to make it worth people's effort without exceeding (vastly) the return that having bagging clerks produces.
You'll still have people cleaning sewage lines, because civilization literally rests on that. It'll be a well-paid job suddenly.
That's as intended, as far as I'm concerned.
- lostgame 5y agoI haven't seen a baggage clerk in years here in Canada. Probably just an extra person to pay, tbh - and there's also starting to be quite a few self-checkouts, with some places like Dollarama having entirely self-checkout operations. We're going to see a lot of these jobs just replaced with machines, and reasonably so - which is also why UBI is going to be increasingly necessary as the years pass.