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"Who wants to spend 12 years studying medicine to save the lives of those who aren't working?" I think the argument is that there is inherent value in helping
by JimtheCoder 3y ago
"Who wants to spend 12 years studying medicine to save the lives of those who aren't working?"
I think the argument is that there is inherent value in helping fellow man/woman, self actualization, etc - and that is the reward in itself.
I do not agree with this.
- ryandrake 3y agoI think the UBI argument is that the cost of those shit-digging jobs will have to significantly rise to the actual price of finding someone willing to do them. If I have to do work or starve, maybe I'm willing to dig shit for $15/hr. If nobody has to do work to survive, suddenly you have to shell out $300/hr to motivate someone to do it.
- one_level_deep 3y ago[dead]
- dudeinhawaii 3y agoThat's a good point. My hope would be that AI/Robotics would automate away the shit jobs and the toil-work.
- andrepd 3y agoI don't understand, jobs don't become pro bono if there's UBI lol. Salaries still exist. Actually, if anything, they become more valuable. And tbh, the kind of person that would study medicine for 10 years is probably not gonna be the kind of person to settle for the survivability-level income of UBI.