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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by Kim_Bruning on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:26PM (#29970662)
Depends on the factory and what you're doing there. Last time I worked in a factory I was debugging printer-eating robots, shooting high powered lasers at things, and blowing stuff around with blasts of compressed air. (And I got to program all those things).

You haven't really debugged things until your tests involve forklifts and 10t cranes. O:-)

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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by Natsu on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:24PM (#29971305)
I wish, this was more about working several summers near a large, hot furnace with no AC.
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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by Kim_Bruning on Monday January 17, 2022 @05:52PM (#29972620)
Oh, that's no fun. Sorry to hear it.

Fortunately people are working to make that kind of thing less necessary (though it can't be eliminated completely of course; someone still needs to watch and maintain the machines).

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Re:Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work by Natsu on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:53PM (#29982913)
I mean, this isn't completely unsolvable--better AC would've made things better. But it probably wouldn't be that economical, because industries like that are rather price sensitive.
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