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So we're just done with providing natural stress on the population, where each person strives to learn and do things that other people appreciate? Instead, we p
by DanielBMarkham 12y ago
So we're just done with providing natural stress on the population, where each person strives to learn and do things that other people appreciate? Instead, we provide the option for "checking out" and getting paid no matter what?
Even if I bought into the narrative of the end of useful labor, which I don't, and even if I bought into the narrative of people who can't be trained, which I don't, the economics of this don't make any sense to me.
I wouldn't oppose it, though. Instead let's get a few dozen small experiments going, see how they work out. Even bad ideas are good if you can learn from them. The real enemy to progress is the idea that we are forced to either reject new ideas like this in their entirety or embrace them at some huge scale.