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What do you consider "sufficient"? If it's paying you just enough so you can have milk and eggs and bread every day, is that sufficient? Do you really think peo
by dataflow 3y ago
What do you consider "sufficient"? If it's paying you just enough so you can have milk and eggs and bread every day, is that sufficient? Do you really think people would be willing to live a monotonous life for the rest of their lives?
The point of UBI isn't to make it rain so that nobody has to work anymore. It's to make it so that nobody ends up on the streets just because they lost their job for a while. And a pleasant side effect is people will be able to invest more time into finding better jobs, educating themselves in new areas, etc. without fear of going homeless or broke.
I'm not claiming funding isn't an issue (it most definitely is, as are a bunch of other things), but you're mixing up the funding aspect with the motivation aspect, which need not be tied so strongly together.