3 ms·
There are a few reasons. Firstly people getting a pittance now for job X would also get ubi, so they'd be better off. And second, when that crappy job ceases t
by LatteLazy 3y ago
There are a few reasons. Firstly people getting a pittance now for job X would also get ubi, so they'd be better off.
And second, when that crappy job ceases to exist, they'd have something to fall back on (the UK where I am has basically no benefits for people who lose their jobs).
If they quit, I am content for the free market to increase wages or otherwise make those jobs better.
Separately if like to see shorter working hours (and so more people working). But that's not a ubi change.
- vladvasiliu 3y ago> There are a few reasons. Firstly people getting a pittance now for job X would also get ubi, so they'd be better off. Sure, but the value proposition of the shitty job would be lower, which would help decide in favor of stopping it altogether. But this doesn't show how those still working would be under any less pressure, and especially less taxation. The only way this could be improved I can imagine is by n-order effects. Some of the people who stop working would pick up some other activity that they enjoy, which would, directly or indirectly, produce some kind of riches, at least for them, at best that could be spread around society. But I don't think this can be reliably approximated beforehand.