Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work

Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by onlyrealcuzzo on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:15PM (#29969636)

Are you saying you'd be more encouraged to work to buy a video game than to not be homeless?

Why wouldn't regular minimum wage workers just be homeless and spend their money on luxuries if this was the case?

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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by bryanlarsen on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:19PM (#29969699)

I'm saying that the work wouldn't be so mentally tedious. You're working because you want to be there because the reward is tangible. The difference between working because you have to and because you want to is massive, even if the work is the same.

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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by Kim_Bruning on Monday January 17, 2022 @05:19PM (#29972312)

If you're not stuck in a fight for survival, you have a lot more energy left over for other things, both less and more frivolous (like charity or games)

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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by Sohcahtoa82 on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:26PM (#29969847)

If you're homeless, what luxuries are you buying?

What use is buying the new video game if you don't have a place to put a TV to play it on?

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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by recursive on Monday January 17, 2022 @04:46PM (#29972052)

For playing on your Nintendo Switch of course.

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