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This is 100% why we need a strong social safety net and/or UBI in the USA. Imagine if you could just quit a job like this, take a few months off, and start look
by nerdponx 4y ago
This is 100% why we need a strong social safety net and/or UBI in the USA. Imagine if you could just quit a job like this, take a few months off, and start looking for a new job, without worrying about becoming bankrupt or homeless? The economy would thrive as individuals were free to move about the labor market, take time off to re-skill periodically, etc.
I was in a bad situation in a job, completely burned out. It was only when I had the opportunity to move in with family that I could quit and get my life back together. If I had the ability to just quit and spend some time collecting myself a year earlier, who knows how much happier and healthier I'd be, and how much sooner I'd have been able to return to productivity?
- i_dont_know_ 4y agoTotally this. I moved away from the US many years ago, and having the luxury to go a few months without work and not have to worry about things like health insurance is phenomenal. You can find a new job at your own pace, when you're actually genuinely excited about it. Also, there are enough other people around you who are taking their time that you don't feel like garbage for not having a job (somehow in the US, even when I was more than financially secure, I felt like it was 'not ok' to not be working)
- Laaas 4y agoThe issue with UBI is that some people start doing "jobs" that aren't productive, like Factorio.
- wildrhythms 4y agoSo what? People play Factorio all day today in absence of UBI. You don't think those people could, given a newfound economic freedom, be better positioned to pursue real-life 'productive' forms of Factorio labor that they're passionate about like robotics, logistics...?