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Comment by SoftTalker

2 days ago

It's a nice fantasy but completely contrary to human nature.

What is your alternative, when the price humans can sell their labor at dips below what is necessary for them to survive? All these takes about "UBI will demolish the human spirit" or whatever are just ridiculous when the alternative is "starve to death".

  • Just doing nothing isn't great for the "human spirit", but UBI doesn't mean people can't find their own goals to pursue. The idea of something where people are not longer required to work to survive is hard to accept since many people haven't seriously considered how they could meaning outside of their careers

    • I could ask every one of my coworkers what they would do and they would have a realistic answer.

      I don't really have sympathy for people attached to their careers. They did that to themselves.

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  • I see two alternatives, one that people find new ways to do productive work with or in the presence of LLM, or massive social unrest, rebellion, war and/or starving to death, followed by a reset. I.e. the way human nature has responded to similar imbalances in the past.

Glad to hear you've isolated the UBI-incompatibility (UBII) gene. Could you present your findings for the rest of us?