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Because a society full of desperate people is less productive and more expensive to maintain than its alternatives. It's not about deserving, it's just pragmat
by __MatrixMan__ 4y ago
Because a society full of desperate people is less productive and more expensive to maintain than its alternatives. It's not about deserving, it's just pragmatic.
- dcow 4y agoCitation needed. I’d think it would be more productive to keep people a little desperate, sadly.
- __MatrixMan__ 4y agoSadly, I don't have that citation. It'll take time for data from UBI efforts to accumulate. Still I believe that more than 75% of human effort is currently spent on zerosum games, keeping the riffraff in their place and jockeying for position among ourselves. If we could flip that so that 75% was spent on non-zerosum games, we could work half as hard and still have more.
- jvmfjvfjvf 4y agoThere are an infinite number of people who want to live in Manhattan too. Should every company be forced to pay them living wages to live there too?
- tremon 4y agoSince there's a finite (and countable) number of people alive, that statement is obviously hyperbole. But... why not?
- __MatrixMan__ 4y agoIt's not about "should", it's about whether or not the people can compel them to do so. It's probably in the people's best interest to be a bit less ambitious than "pay for an infinite number of people", since that's unlikely to happen regardless of how compliant the companies are.