A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing

Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by irrational on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @03:58PM (#11623716)

I make more than $100,000 a year, but I'd gladly quit if I had a basic income that let me lay around at home all day and read library books.

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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by scld on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @04:44PM (#11624081)

And you would be replaced by someone who likes to travel to tropical beaches to sit and read books all day :)

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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by aminok on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:44AM (#11626468)

It would reduce the supply of highly skill labour, which would reduce the amount of goods/services produced, and as a consequence, the amount of wealth the world gets to consume. You're making the 'lump of labour fallacy' in assuming that someone will just take his stop with no loss.

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