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You're probably 15 years old or thereabouts, so I'll keep this simple: With UBI, you will have to drive your trash to the nearest landfill yourself. And the c

You're probably 15 years old or thereabouts, so I'll keep this simple: With UBI, you will have to drive your trash to the nearest landfill yourself. And the car will barely work for lack of mechanics. And the road will barely function for lack of construction workers. And the landfill will just be a disordered rubbish tip, and not a proper facility. Because no one--and I mean no one--is working in garbage, grease, or tar when they can sit at home instead. It's the purest idiocy anyone ever thought of. And yeah, doctors and nurses are in it for the money. No one works in shit and puke for fun either.

myshpa 4y ago
Money is not the best or the only motivator. Maybe (ignoring the fact that ours is the age of trash, one of the things that should be solved first) those jobs you've mentioned are in fact essential and the only thing it shows is that the way how incentives are set is artificial and has nothing to do with the real utility of the job. Making majority of population to work their whole lives although there are (will be) ways to automate it completely just because we need few dirty & greasy jobs done is not a stupidity? And I for one don't believe that doctors and nurses are in it only for the money, there are many examples of people choosing jobs and risking their lives for others, no money are worth that. People (can) act out of their heart, not just out of their greed. It's a complicated topic, with many unknowns and many things that would have to change, but insisting that status quo is the best way to handle things ... that seems like blindness to me.
hellotomyrars 4y ago
I work in healthcare and could make more money doing other jobs I am qualified for but prefer to work in in-home healthcare because I don't hate it. Cleaning up human waste is preferable to working a higher-income soulless job. I have also been a volunteer firefighter for a part of my life and that didn't just not pay me, it also cost me. Not everyone is a cynical monster who would only ever do anything that benefitted themselves personally.

myshpa 4y ago

Money is not the best or the only motivator. Maybe (ignoring the fact that ours is the age of trash, one of the things that should be solved first) those jobs you've mentioned are in fact essential and the only thing it shows is that the way how incentives are set is artificial and has nothing to do with the real utility of the job. Making majority of population to work their whole lives although there are (will be) ways to automate it completely just because we need few dirty & greasy jobs done is not a stupidity? And I for one don't believe that doctors and nurses are in it only for the money, there are many examples of people choosing jobs and risking their lives for others, no money are worth that. People (can) act out of their heart, not just out of their greed. It's a complicated topic, with many unknowns and many things that would have to change, but insisting that status quo is the best way to handle things ... that seems like blindness to me.

hellotomyrars 4y ago

I work in healthcare and could make more money doing other jobs I am qualified for but prefer to work in in-home healthcare because I don't hate it. Cleaning up human waste is preferable to working a higher-income soulless job. I have also been a volunteer firefighter for a part of my life and that didn't just not pay me, it also cost me. Not everyone is a cynical monster who would only ever do anything that benefitted themselves personally.