Comment by rekabis
6 days ago
> The article's central premise is based on a false assumption, which is that people taking UBI will be idle. There is no significant evidence to support that claim.
Absolutely true. Even meta-analyses of all UBI experiments to date - encompassing tens of thousands of adults - shows an increase in labour participation, not a decrease.
And if formal, capitalistic, profit-based jobs are no longer available, what barrier do we have against creating social jobs that need doing? Just because the Parasite Class cannot extract obscene amounts of wealth from those jobs doesn’t mean they don’t need doing. It just means there is no profit angle to have in doing them.
If I had no worries about my needs, I would love to work on open-source projects. Failing that, it would be ecosystem restoration or bioremediation. All jobs that can be free of government and capitalism, but which desperately needs bodies to yeet ant the issues at hand.
There is much work to be done in society that needs doing.
Some of it can be new jobs, and some of it can be done by making the existing jobs have less hours freeing people up to do more meaningful things.