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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by ThrustVectoring on Monday April 04, 2016 @04:41PM (#11425425)
The correct measure is something like quality-adjusted life years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year), treating the particular details of the job as a disability.
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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by randyrand on Monday April 04, 2016 @04:50PM (#11425536)
For many people working improves their quality of life.

Making things, having some purpose, giving back to society, ect are all very rewarding things.

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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by ThrustVectoring on Monday April 04, 2016 @05:03PM (#11425651)
Sorry if that was unclear - working a job you love can and should have the opposite sign. That's why I said something like QALY: it maxes out at 1 QALY/person-year, which is incorrect when people would rather spend a decade as a rock star than 30 years retired in Arizona.
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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by kybernetikos on Monday April 04, 2016 @05:41PM (#11425928)
These sound good. I think there'd probably be more of all those things if people didn't have to work unfulfilling jobs of marginal benefit to society in order to feed themselves.
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