People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report

Re:People kept working, became healthier while on basic inco... by heavyset_go on Thursday March 05, 2020 @01:54PM (#22496741)

> “A linen shirt is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-labourer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt, the want of which would be supposed to denote that disgraceful degree of poverty which, it is presumed, nobody can well fall into without extreme bad conduct.”

- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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Re:People kept working, became healthier while on basic inco... by ctdonath on Thursday March 05, 2020 @06:11PM (#22499387)

The aforementioned day-laborer's shirt took hundreds of hours to make.

The aforementioned Greeks & Romans had to go hunt & kill & skin & dry a good-sized animal to make a shirt.

You can buy an entirely respectable modern shirt for $5 today, 42 minutes of mundane commodity labor in a comfortable environment.

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