Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
by Ericson2314 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @10:14AM
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If I had to choose between:
- Today, where despite massive productivity improvements over the decades, we all are kept busy with commensurate bullshit work
- UBI horror couch potato land, where there's a tiny working aristocracy and everyone else is a TB drone
I would surely choose the latter. At least in the latter I have the guaranteed option of doing something meaningful with my own time and being recognized for it.
Also please recognize that behavior/culture doesn't happen in a vacuum. If people have heard welfare be demonized their entire lives, never had a change to work/hobby something productive and meaningful, and are generally scared/depressed about the pandemic, I doubt they are emotionally prepared to become some basement dweller programmer savant.
- Today, where despite massive productivity improvements over the decades, we all are kept busy with commensurate bullshit work
- UBI horror couch potato land, where there's a tiny working aristocracy and everyone else is a TB drone
I would surely choose the latter. At least in the latter I have the guaranteed option of doing something meaningful with my own time and being recognized for it.
Also please recognize that behavior/culture doesn't happen in a vacuum. If people have heard welfare be demonized their entire lives, never had a change to work/hobby something productive and meaningful, and are generally scared/depressed about the pandemic, I doubt they are emotionally prepared to become some basement dweller programmer savant.