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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by jacobn on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:08PM (#29969520)
Those who work and thereby pay for the UBI may feel that freeriding is actually unjust, and not the hallmark of a glorious new post-scarcity society?
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by pc86 on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:12PM (#29969577)
I'm sure some will. Some won't. So what?

I'm not trying to be dismissive, but this strikes me as a "but some people will be upset!" argument, which seems irrelevant to whether the policy achieves its stated goals or not.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by respondo2134 on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:25PM (#29969815)
then why are so many UBI proponents surprised when those who would bankroll this experiement fight it so hard?
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:34PM (#29970790)
It is expected, just disappointing. "I got mine, fuck you" is not exactly the kind of thinking we wish our fellow citizens engaged in.

And for the record, I would appear to be in the group bankrolling it rather than receiving from it, and I'm completely cool with it.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by tekknik on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:19AM (#29975432)
> It is expected, just disappointing. "I got mine, fuck you" is not exactly the kind of thinking we wish our fellow citizens engaged in.

What it too to get mine, required very hard work and literally signing my life away for 4 years. Then, when I started gaining, I got fined for not having health insurance. Now that I can comfortably afford my health insurance and am starting to look at buying a house, here’s the left again saying I should help others, when I received no such help, and taking away the money I worked hard to earn. Imagine not having a degree in the software engineering field. The struggle is real, and if I can do it then what are others excuses?

No, I’m sorry, I will fight to force others to follow my path (albeit in a different field should they choose). I will not willingly pay for others to have an easy life unless they are related to me.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by seba_dos1 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:14AM (#29976078)
I never understood how twisted someone's mind has to be in order to say "I suffered, so I'll fight to make others suffer too".
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by tekknik on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:47AM (#29980858)
I’ve never understood why people are so willing to give up what they’ve earned for people who are not trying that just have their hand out. Why do we do it this way, those that want to help can pay the UBI tax and receive the payments. The rest of us that don’t want it can never receive it but also don’t have to pay. Why don’t we do that instead?

Also I’m a Navy veteran. I can’t tell you how many times I can back from deployment to see actual hatred from these people I had never met, who I was defending their freedom for. The idea of helping others is gone after 1) I already did by defending their freedom and 2) most people here are assholes only thinking of themselves, so i joined them.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by throwawayboise on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:52PM (#29970982)
I don't think that's the mindset. The mindset is, "I worked for what I have, you can do the same"
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by seba_dos1 on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:33PM (#29971402)
People with that mindset usually greatly overestimate the influence their work has on what they have and underestimate external factors, so pushing them to reevaluate may be a good thing.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by tekknik on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:20AM (#29975440)
So, people that worked and earned what they have and are compensated accordingly don’t deserve it?
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by seba_dos1 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:41AM (#29975546)
Do such people even exist?

Being a programmer, what I earned is a result of several factors - most importantly investments made into me by my parents and by the society (with schools, infrastructure etc. mostly funded with taxes); and also plenty of pure luck and sheer coincidence. Only afterwards comes a lot of hard work I've put into learning what I know. Without the former, I would probably earn only a small fraction of that (and/or under much worse conditions) even assuming that I'd be putting the same amount of hard work. Alternatively, with more dumb luck I could be earning much more while putting less work into achieving that. Of course, this is just barely scratching the surface, as there are also other ways to get rich than working hard or being lucky; mere ability to invest your time and effort into "working hard" is often filled with external factors as well; and "being (un)lucky" itself contains so many factors to consider that I wouldn't even know where to start.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by tekknik on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:51AM (#29975608)
> Do such people even exist?

You’re talking to one. I have no degree, am self taught and a software engineer. The most help I got was reading open source code, which was pretty difficult to do when I started. My parents had no money for school for me, and I joined the military to try to get some education. That still wasn’t enough to actually get a degree so I had to work low paying jobs knowing I could do better while working side projects to improve my skill. I just recently caught up to what I should be making.

It’s common for those that took the standard path to think nobody works for what they got.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by seba_dos1 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:58AM (#29975661)
I'm not. You were able to read open source code and learn from it, taking advantage of a lot of effort its authors put into it (who knows, maybe you even stumbled on some of my work out there?). You had access to computers and to the Internet, and had time to use it, most likely thanks to your parents, which isn't a given. You admitted yourself that you turned into publicly funded military for it to invest into your education. You also had ability to do side projects while working a low paying job, instead of, say, taking care of an ill relative your whole spare time - not everyone is so lucky. And perhaps most importantly of it all, you turned your attention into software engineering during time when software engineering is extremely lucrative - it doesn't have to stay this way at all.

I don't even have a degree, by the way; I'm mostly self-taught too.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by tekknik on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:45AM (#29980823)
> You were able to read open source code and learn from it, taking advantage of a lot of effort its authors put into it (who knows, maybe you even stumbled on some of my work out there?).

I knew you were going to fixate on that, as you’re grasping at straws, which is why I put it in there. The amount of source code I read was one project, a php web framework. Yea I learned about 2 things from it back then, which I’ve long forgotten now.

Since I didn’t earn what I have, call your school, revoke your degree, quit your job and start over again with only unskilled jobs on your resume. Until you do that you won’t understand.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by seba_dos1 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:50AM (#29980901)
> Until you do that you won’t understand.

I already said that I don't even have a degree. All you did in this thread was proving the point of my original comment.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by tekknik on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @11:09AM (#29981247)
No, I haven’t. You are assuming people give out info for free. What you’re saying is essentially that your degree was free. Someone had to pay for it. For me it was buying books. Did those authors help me with free books? No they charged me just the same. How is this getting help from others? Unless you believe that if you gain knowledge at all even with compensation from someone else is help. But that’s just commerce.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by seba_dos1 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @11:22AM (#29981447)
> You are assuming people give out info for free.

They do. I learned a lot thanks to them.

> What you’re saying is essentially that your degree was free.

My degree that does not exist?

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by tekknik on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:46AM (#29995100)
> They do. I learned a lot thanks to them.

Since you’re still not following, why do people post blog articles? Why do people write research papers? Just to get the info out there? No, they do it because it gives them some advantage over others. FAANGs won’t hire you without proof of knowledge. The other side of it is SEO. You want to exist on google you have to look like an expert, so you write a lot of articles to increase your score. Both of these situations are driven by money, not by some desire to help others.

> My degree that does not exist?

Fine, then you’re essentially saying that all the learning you did was free for you. It required no effort at all, all you had to do was read. If your self taught, or went to school, you know this is just dumb.

So back to the point, did you or did you not work for the knowledge you have? Or did it just get matrixed into you?

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by seba_dos1 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @09:59PM (#30003914)
> Both of these situations are driven by money, not by some desire to help others.

I've learned a lot from pseudonymous or even anonymous people with no money or fame involved. And helped others this way too.

> Fine, then you’re essentially saying that all the learning you did was free for you. It required no effort at all, all you had to do was read.

That's not what I'm saying at all and you would have known that if you would read what I wrote with comprehension. It took a lot of effort, but I recognize that this effort alone is just a single factor that influenced what I earn, and not even the most important one. Other factors outside of my control could have easily ruined (or boosted) it all, and it's true for everyone.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @07:30AM (#29978079)
Nobody earns what they have in a vacuum. There is a society that exists around you and enables what you do.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by tekknik on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:42AM (#29980777)
And we pay taxes to cover that.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:18PM (#29982335)
Right, and that's what would be supporting UBI: taxes. So either you're arguing that taxes are unjust because they take what is rightfully yours, or you're just saying that UBI will cost too much. It very much seems like your argument is the former.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by caskstrength on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @11:30AM (#29981560)
> It is expected, just disappointing. "I got mine, fuck you" is not exactly the kind of thinking we wish our fellow citizens engaged in.

I haven't "got mine" yet and tend to disagree when people propose to lock me out of upper-middle class lifestyle by taxing the hell out of my income. It is more like people like you who "got theirs" want to pull the ladder up.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by yes_really on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:53PM (#29970989)
It's not "I got mine, fuck you". It's "I got mine. You got yours. Now you want to take mine, fuck you".
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by ipaddr on Monday January 17, 2022 @04:29PM (#29971889)
Would those people have extra means to influence political laws to be more in their favor?
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by roamerz on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:26PM (#29969834)
So what? Sounds like you should be part or a dictatorship rather than a democracy. If you support this idea then feel free to donate to the cause.

Not trying to be an ass but the so what attitude does not tend to further constructive discussion.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by Dylan16807 on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:35PM (#29970009)
> Sounds like you should be part or a dictatorship rather than a democracy.

What a weird claim. Decisions in democracies upset some people too. That's the whole point of voting on things, to resolve conflicts.

> If you support this idea then feel free to donate to the cause.

Donate to what?

> Not trying to be an ass but the so what attitude does not tend to further constructive discussion.

"Some people will complain" isn't constructive by itself either.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by tekknik on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:22AM (#29975450)
> That's the whole point of voting on things, to resolve conflicts.

It doesn’t resolve the conflict, one side is just forced to accept something they don’t want. The hatred, and therefore the division, builds regardless.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by pc86 on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:59PM (#29970324)
I would love to know what democracy you live in where nobody is ever upset by democratic decisions.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by Sohcahtoa82 on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:24PM (#29969802)
As more jobs become automated, UBI will become a necessity to prevent the collapse of civilization.

Imagine something as simple as burger flipping became completely automated. There would be a million fast food workers suddenly unemployed. Add making espresso to the mix and half a million baristas lose their job.

There won't be a million new jobs created to maintain the automation to pick up the slack.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by tekknik on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:29AM (#29975481)
> Imagine something as simple as burger flipping became completely automated. There would be a million fast food workers suddenly unemployed. Add making espresso to the mix and half a million baristas lose their job.

Both of these are completely automated already.

https://newsexaminer.net/food/mcdonalds-to-open-restaurant-r...

I can’t find a link for the espresso machine but many FAANGs have the ones you can place orders through a website then go to the lounge to pick it up.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by VirusNewbie on Monday January 17, 2022 @04:41PM (#29972000)
>, UBI will become a necessity to prevent the collapse of civilization.

No, it won't. It might be the best way forward but it's not the only option. You could:

1. Give people free housing and food

2. Allow people to work other jobs, even if they're marginally as productive as automation (sweeping the floors, picking up trash, etc)

3. UBI

4. Give people welfare/foodstamps as we currently do in many countries

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by mongol on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:53PM (#29970251)
Go back all the way back to the industrial revolution and you will find that automation creates new jobs, just other kinds.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by qwytw on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:03PM (#29970388)
The industrial revolution replaced a smaller number of high (kind of) skilled jobs with a large number of low skilled jobs. This time it seems that it's the other way around.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by xyzzyz on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:14PM (#29970510)
> The industrial revolution replaced a smaller number of high (kind of) skilled jobs with a large number of low skilled jobs.

No, it replaced large number of medium and low skilled jobs too. Before industrial revolution, more labor hours were spent on working distaff and spindle than probably any other single job. Industrial revolution reduced number of spinning jobs to roughly zero. The same happened to many other low skilled jobs, like weaving, mining, digging, and many more.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by qwytw on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:57PM (#29971040)
Yes you're right, now that I read it doesn't make sense.. I guess what I wanted to say is that is that at least initially it replaced a huge number of medium paying jobs with a large number of low paying and a small number of extremely well paying jobs.

Due to the massively the increased efficiency the industrial revolution created many many of them low skilled new jobs which couldn't have existed earlier. An average person in the 19th century probably consumed significantly more textile and other manufactured products than someone in the prior centuries. However in the beginning this increase in efficiency led to large decrease in incomes due to the surplus in labour and in part because efficiency increases in agriculture were trailing behind other areas. E.g. an unskilled worker in the UK could only purchase about 60% of the amount of bread in ~1800 compared to what he could in 1750 (real earnings only started to grow significantly between 1850 and 1875.

Modern automation on the other hand seems to mostly just replaced many low and medium paying jobs with a smaller number of high paying ones.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by xyzzyz on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:37PM (#29971443)
You are correct about the dynamics of wage labor during the industrial revolution. However, I can't say I agree with this:

> Modern automation on the other hand seems to mostly just replaced many low and medium paying jobs with a smaller number of high paying ones.

Modern automation created so much prosperity that we now have significant portions of the population doing things that 19th century people would scarcely call "jobs" -- Tyler Cowen, an economist, collects many of those on his blog, see https://marginalrevolution.com/?s=new+service+sector+jobs . Additionally, many jobs that would be recognizable to them are now done by greatly increased number of people. Consider, for example, a job of university administrator: as such, this job would make sense to 19th century people. However, the idea that university employs more administrative than research or teaching staff would seem rather ludicrous to them. The reason we can do it is that the productive sector of the economy creates so much surplus, that we can through regulation, taxation, and social custom funnel so much of it to people doing jobs that are not by any means crucial to the functioning or prosperity of the society.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by andi999 on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:08PM (#29970433)
Dont forget the 3.5 millon truck drivers in the US.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by ipaddr on Monday January 17, 2022 @04:34PM (#29971925)
Why not welfare increases? Why give to the richest?
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by edmcnulty101 on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:12PM (#29969591)
Most of the productivity gains go to the top percentage of people. Despite massive gdp increases in 20 years wages havent budged.

If all the work was automated/outsourced those people would still make the same money.

These are the people who ostensibly will pay for UBI and automation/outsources is one of the cases for UBI.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by qwytw on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:09PM (#29970447)
If we take out the period between around 2000 and 2010 they have been growing continuously since 1980 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...)

of course it's not at the same rate as GDP (5x vs 1.5x for personal income).

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by edmcnulty101 on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:42PM (#29971490)
It's kept up with inflation. But that's about it. Which means real wage growth is minimal.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by sidibe on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:14PM (#29969612)
It's their choice to work. Might take a generation or two to not be outraged based on how we were raised, but that would seem to make it not unjust.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by inglor_cz on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:21PM (#29969753)
Depends.

If a minority of voters are dependent on the UBI and a majority decides that they do not like the system, or a politician persuades them so, they will vote against it. ("Working your ass off on lazy strangers" is a huge boon for populist politicians.)

If a majority of voters depends on the UBI and a minority is compelled to provide it to them, they basically have no recourse but to emigrate. At which point you lose their tax money, unless you impose draconic measures on emigration.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:38PM (#29970822)
I don't see why they shouldn't be free to. Yet, weirdly, we don't see a lot of people renouncing their rich-socialist-nation citizenship to run off to some other libertarian paradise.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by nec4b on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:13PM (#29971198)
>> rich-socialist-nation

Which nation is that?

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:45PM (#29971511)
All of the ones providing single payer healthcare, if you need a more precise target.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by nec4b on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:50AM (#29975602)
Could you be more specific? Single payer healthcare does not make a country socialistic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @07:28AM (#29978066)
You can get as pedantic as you want about the definition of socialism, but the point is, there's no evidence that a program like single-payer healthcare or UBI will drive off everyone who pays into the system.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by nec4b on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @08:47AM (#29978941)
There is also no evidence of pink unicorns not existing.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:24AM (#29979545)
What evidence we do have says that people are not going to mass-flee a country just because taxes go up to benefit the lower classes at the expense of the higher earning ones. I therefore assert that inglor_cz's assertion is baseless. Feel free to provide a counter-example.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by nec4b on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:18PM (#29982334)
Actually that happened in every socialist country before they prevented their citizens from emigrating.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:46PM (#29984679)
I have a feeling you're pedantically latching on to the word 'socialist' as a, frankly quite silly, effort to try and link the concept of higher taxes with authoritarian-communist countries. I believe you to be arguing in bad faith.

Otherwise, I can simply point out that many almost all the countries with single-payer health care are still plenty enough peopled to be able to pay for it and don't have to have any draconian policies against leaving. As I understand it, even residing outside of them often exempts you completely from taxation, which even the 'can't afford single-payer!' US doesn't do.

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by nec4b on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @01:04AM (#29990503)
What does single payer system have to do with UBI? Americans also have medical insurance and they also pay for it one way or the other. The UBI tax would come on top of that. The same thing as in single payer countries. Your are not disproving inglor_cz's assertion in any way.If anything you confirmed it with an example of socialist countries.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:36AM (#29994946)
The assertion seemed to be that higher taxes which go to universal social programs cause people to flee, I provide examples of countries that have higher taxes going to social programs where people have largely not fled even though such activity is not prevented. I fail to see how this confirms the assertion.
Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by tamaharbor on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:22PM (#29969772)
When did hard work (or any work for that matter) to move up the skills/pay ladder become obsolete?