There is a payment here, it's reputation.

The hard part is getting people to do exhausting, boring, smelly mundane tasks that don't garner applause.

Those tasks are more numerous by orders of magnitude, until we achieve post-scarcity.

> The hard part is getting people to do exhausting, boring, smelly mundane tasks that don't garner applause.

For example, further polishing this emulator implementation to be compatible with a larger range of titles and host system configurations.

At some point, it always becomes a job.

One can also look at Alaska over the past ~40 years to see that people are willing to work while getting UBI.

Is it accurate to call an inflation-adjusted yearly payment of ~$2000 UBI, though? I know nothing about housing and living expenses in Alaska, but I'd guess that isn't exactly enough to make work completely optional.

Yes, absolutely.

It sounds like you're conflating a few things. UBI is as it says, an income that is given universally. UBI doesn't imply a certain amount of income. Other phrases may be used for what you seem to be describing: full basic income, guaranteed minimum income (which implies means testing).

Under that definition, $1/year/person would still "qualify" as UBI, and I don't think there are many interesting conversations to be had around that.

This is why I'm glad in practice politicians, economists, etc., tend to study these things in order figure out how to structure social services in a way that actually helps people and not to make "Reductio ad absurdum" style arguments.

Bad news about the frequency of this trait

What is the frequency? I haven't read much on it.

Honestly, I'm not sure the frequency needs to be extraordinarily high. The ability to get rid of the "but think of all the jobs that will be lost" argument lets us get rid of swaths of bullshit jobs that don't need to exist, or even actually harmful jobs. It's been a constant roadblock to greater automation.

Bad news about the frequency of having the resources to exercise this trait

Or even just a case study in favor of an environment where there is no prohibition on the copying of ideas / bytes.

what is UBI ?