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Re:WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveil... by jupp0r on Sunday June 04, 2023 @03:54PM (#36188956)
Your understanding of universal income is broken. Everybody receives a monthly income, regardless of them working or not. The incentive to earn more by working is always there.
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Re:WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveil... by SoftTalker on Sunday June 04, 2023 @05:03PM (#36189549)
Not if employers are taxed so much to fund UBI that they hire fewer workers. The ability to work and earn more is contingent upon enough jobs existing.

What would really happen is they would raise their prices to earn the amount of profit they deem necessary to be worth the trouble of being in business. Everything gets more expensive, and the UBI payments won't be enough to live on.

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Re:WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveil... by mantas on Monday June 05, 2023 @02:26AM (#36193079)
People would still pay taxes ;) UBI is essentially a negative tax. If you make nothing - you get some money. If you make some - there's a breaking point somewhere where you pay more taxes than is UBI.

If UBI was a cushy amount covering more than the bare basics, low-tier jobs would pay a very small premium over pure UBI.

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