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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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