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My personal pronostic. Poor people will start to act as rich people... They will start to "decide" what they are doing of their time! ;-)

• tosseraccount 11y ago
  Why work if housing, food and health care are free? Maybe a little under the table cash for a couple of extras. Otherwise, why bother?
  • rdc12 11y ago
    How many people are capable of doing nothing thou, 9x% of people will still find something productive (either in the current commercial sence or more the art/craft sence) or find someother way to find satisfy their more personal needs/desires. There is an anecdote of a Canadian town that tried (for ~1 year) this during the 80's and one of the people they focussed one, got a job as the janitor at the local high school and loved it so much, that by choice he was there post retirment age. [1] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-mincome-experiment-dauphin http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-mincome-experiment-daup... (same trial, different story)
    • vigile_ 11y ago
      I agree with you. Thank you for the link and let's see how our Dutch friends play the game! ;-)
  • vigile_ 11y ago
    Because the very meaning of work would be "accomplishment" and/or "creativity". Without the pressure you mention. I know so well what it is to work for food and housing... And it's not correlate to the "sparkling" moments of my life. What is interesting with the Dutch experiment... is that it's an experiment! Less ideology and more data!