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Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic... by hackinthebochs on Thursday July 11, 2013 @02:19PM (#6027965)
This isn't true. Our usual concept of ownership and hiring might have to change. There are people out there who dream about running a coffee shop. There are people out there who are the restless type who have to be working on "something". Yes, you'd have a hard time finding baristas to work for 5 dollars an hour. You could probably find plenty of people who would join a "co-op" type ownership situation where everyone shared in the less than pleasant responsibilities for a shared sense of ownership of the entire endeavor and a shared cut of the profits. No doubt society would look different than it does now, and there would be a lot of problems to solve. But these problems aren't unsolvable.
Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic... by ihateloggingin on Saturday July 13, 2013 @07:04AM (#6037256)
When people come over to my house, it's always a big chore to get someone to make the coffee.

Usually 5 or 6 of us gang up and threaten to throw the other one out of his house. Works every time.