Re:Universal Basic Income – Poll Results from IGM Economic E...
by saturdaysaint on Thursday June 30, 2016 @01:43PM
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Yet being part of society is something that people desire deeply, so it's possible that they'll just make their own work. I found Tim O'Reilly's musing on Econtalk last year (link - http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/10/tim_oreilly_on.html) to be persuasive - he posited that in a potential future where a min income is necessary, humans will spend a lot more time entertaining each other. Hey, Harry Potter was written while JK Rowling was "on the dole" and a lot of my favorite Twitch streamers (who have raised Street Fighter to both art and science) also seem to be awfully unoccupied Brits... I actually wrote an album during a brief unemployed period - see moneyhousegold.bandcamp.com - so I tend to imagine a society without need of work as a potential creative Golden Age in the making.
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Re:Universal Basic Income – Poll Results from IGM Economic E...
by harryh on Thursday June 30, 2016 @02:01PM
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Why won't the people doing all that work to entertain each other earn an income for doing so, thus making it so a min income isn't necessary?
Re:Universal Basic Income – Poll Results from IGM Economic E...
by undersuit on Thursday June 30, 2016 @03:17PM
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Then there is no safe way to fail. It would discourage innovation. You would have to stay with what works; even if you don't like it, it's getting harder to iterate, or there is a solid wall in the near future that you know you can't cross.
Re:Universal Basic Income – Poll Results from IGM Economic E...
by harryh on Thursday June 30, 2016 @04:15PM
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Well now you've significantly lowered the benefit of a UBI in our fully automated future. Before it was "if we don't do this then 90% of people will literally have no money and won't be able to live." You've changed it to "innovation among entertainers will be discouraged."
I think you might be able to get people on board to support the first justification. The second one is going to be a lot harder to sell.