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>Some people don’t want to work. They’ve told me so ...and? That's fine. there will always be some people who do not want to work. a UBI guarantees somewhat ba

>Some people don’t want to work. They’ve told me so ...and? That's fine. there will always be some people who do not want to work. a UBI guarantees somewhat basic level of living conditions at least.

CoastalCoder 3y ago
[deleted] I failed to consider the audience.
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- cornercasechase 3y ago
  > Perhaps we could make paying for such people voluntary? I’d like to opt out of paying for war but sadly I can’t. My tax dollars going to help people instead of kill and oppress them seems like a huge upgrade.
- bombolo 3y ago
  What is your actual contribution to society? I'm going to assume you work at some useless startup (like most of us) that will be gone in a few years, having left nothing useful to society. Is your work really helping society?
  - itsboring 3y ago
    What, you’re not “Making the World a Better Place through Paxos algorithms for consensus protocols”? In seriousness, I wish there was more self-awareness like this in our field.
    - bombolo 3y ago
      Remember when every startup was claiming to make the world a better place?