>UBI is a non-answer to this, implementing it won't allow everyone to quit their jobs and make art instead. Ideally it's meant to be a social safety net, not a

>UBI is a non-answer to this, implementing it won't allow everyone to quit their jobs and make art instead. Ideally it's meant to be a social safety net, not a way to sponge off of "billionaires paying their taxes" and no ideal survives contact with implementation. We could hope for a marginal improvement on welfare at best (and that would be a good thing, even small improvements count). TBF I don't think the author meant to imply that we should "allow everyone to quit their jobs and make art instead". If we agree that the article is largely lamenting the extortive/exploitative nature of modern society cum digital medium than I'd wager what's in mind is UBI as counter-balance to the increasingly extortive/exploitative labor relations many people are living with. We're sorta getting a taste of this with the effect of exceptional unemployment benefits but that's temporary.