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There are plenty of ways to volunteer or do art that are indistinguishable from loafing. Even if you work hard at volunteering or art, if the result isn't usef
by appreciatorBus 1y ago
There are plenty of ways to volunteer or do art that are indistinguishable from loafing. Even if you work hard at volunteering or art, if the result isn't useful to others, at some point we will start wondering who is going to grow food and do plumbing while everyone is volunteering & arting.
- throaway955 1y agopresumably people who don't like volunteering and arting, and do like working with their hands on concrete problems that directly affect peoples lives
- ghiculescu 1y agoYou think there would be lots of volunteer garbage collectors?
- throaway955 1y ago...pay them to do it? gp said "plumbing" not "the worst jobs we couldn't get people to do for free."
- ghiculescu 1y agoSo basically we are going to pay people to not work, and then pay them even more to still work.
- throaway955 1y agodo you have some kind of evidence that enacting a ubi, which comes with absolutely no condition of "not working," will stop a majority of people from taking paid work and making more money? Do we need 100% of the population to work in order to fill vital positions? I don't think so.
- ghiculescu 1y agoYeah, the article we are commenting on + most comments here are the evidence
- throaway955 1y agoThe article said 3/4 of people kept working, a significant portion of the 1/4 went back to school, and a hell of a a lot of people are in this comment section saying they would never stop working even with UBI.
- wat10000 1y agoExactly. Instead of a floor of $0 and you earn more than that by working, you have a floor of $1,000/month or whatever, and you earn more than that by working. The idea is to provide a cushion, not replace wages.
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