• don@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    The point of UBI is that it has no stipulations. It’s guaranteed no matter what.

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      7 months ago

      Exactly. Its value becomes evident when a version gets to the stage where they can’t work. Very different from those that choose not to work.

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        7 months ago

        And even more evident when you need to decide how to set up a bureaucracy, paperwork, and verification to judge whether someone else could be working more, or just not

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      7 months ago

      Can that actually work in the real world though? If we all take the money and do nothing. Would that actually be sustainable?

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        Unclear. But eventually, people would work. People get bored, it’s nice to have something to do, and get paid extra on top of it.

        UBI just ensures that if they don’t like a job, they can just quit, rather than be forced to keep working on pain of starvation.

        Tests so far seem to be fairly positive about it working. People who get UBI aren’t likely to sit on that money, they’ll just go and spend it either paying back debts, or buying something nice for themselves, so the money will keep going around (just look at the COVID economic stimulus packages). They might even spend more than they might otherwise have, if they’re not just scraping by.