Universal Basic Income – Poll Results from IGM Economic Experts Panel

Re:Universal Basic Income – Poll Results from IGM Economic E... by RangerScience on Thursday June 30, 2016 @01:38PM (#12010263)

A portion of those people will make their own jobs. Most of that portion are some form of artist - I know dancers, leatherworkers, acrobats, and event planners that would readily go after UBI - although what's interesting is that al those people already DO have jobs, just not the ones they want, or that pay the bills well enough.

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Re:Universal Basic Income – Poll Results from IGM Economic E... by natrius on Thursday June 30, 2016 @01:43PM (#12010304)

Underpaid people who are pursing their passions will be fine with a UBI. People who lose their jobs to machines will have to rebuild their idea of why their life has value from scratch, and a UBI makes it clear that other people are still creating lots of value in the world—enough to fund checks for you.

Lots of people don't have productive passions. They were focused on being valuable to their family and community instead. What now for them?

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Re:Universal Basic Income – Poll Results from IGM Economic E... by RangerScience on Friday July 01, 2016 @03:06PM (#12018859)

This is an extremely good point.

Adaptation, classification, a change in how people define themselves?

You point out what I think would end up being a rough patch, but one worth going through.

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