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>and that we should have a universal basic income so that useless administration will not be forced to spend 8 hours a day pretending to be useful. Or you coul

• spencerflem 4y ago
  Graeber's book talks about this in a much more interesting way that I can, and is very explicit about not trying to be a book about basic income. So me adding that was a little editorial. But the point is that for a large variety of cultural, political, and economic reasons there are a lot of jobs like university administrators that are simply not useful but get paid nonetheless, in many cases much better than the people doing the actual work. In both public and private spaces (eg. Harvard, a private university). Even in tech circles we see this argument, like, why does it take 10,000 developers to run a website etc. I think most people want to be useful to society and have a meaningful job but a lot of jobs that pay well are not that. With UBI those admins would be able to volunteer, teach children, make culture, or all the other useful things that pay terribly. Note that these admins are already working to support themselves but society is still failing to find something useful for them. I'm happy to talk abt this more of ya think it would be useful to you :) Got more to say but comments are hard to fit nuance into