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If 1% of the population taking a day off would cause billions of people to starve why do you think you would have the option of not working? You would starve b
by Sevii 4y ago
If 1% of the population taking a day off would cause billions of people to starve why do you think you would have the option of not working?
You would starve because at carrying capacity nearly all of your income would go to food. There wouldn't be any slack.
Admittedly, you'd have to be one of the 'farmers' to have a non-marginal effect on food production.
Why would 1% of the population that creates all the food allow you to have 'free' stuff if them working 1% less meant millions of people would die? They could make you do anything.
- Dylan16807 4y agoThis scenario is insane. A reasonable operation would have enough workers to cover sick days and the fact that people don't put in 100% every day. If they start running low on labor, they will hire more people. And those nightmares of food supply shrinking by 1% are going to be there whether or not you have UBI. Like, I agree that we shouldn't get close to the planet's carrying capacity! That's not the subject at hand.