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It is unfeasible. The reason money works is because it is an abstraction for someone's production of value that is way easier than bartering for everything. phy
by throwawayboise 5y ago
It is unfeasible. The reason money works is because it is an abstraction for someone's production of value that is way easier than bartering for everything. physical labor, skilled labor, educated thinking, management, knowledge transfer... anything that is valuable to someone else.
If you just pay people to sit on their asses, many of them are just going to sit on their asses, creating nothing, simply consuming resources. The host (civilized society) cannot survive when everyone is a leech.
- browningstreet 5y agoMost people don't actually want to live at the UBI subsistence level so they'll work to live at a higher level. Some people need help for a while, and the infrastructure needed to dole out services to those in need creates waste and neglect.
- frickinLasers 5y agoPeople who work bullshit jobs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs) are already unintentional leeches. UBI would disincentivize that inefficiency. Then those who want to sit on their asses with their $1200 could do so guilt-free, and, in my rosy vision for the world, the fraction who want to do something more fulfilling than making money for "the host" (e.g., FAMAG, Wall Street, I dunno) would be empowered to focus on things that are important to them, and probably to humanity as well.