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Re:Basic Income Means Basic Freedom by wyager on Sunday December 15, 2013 @10:01PM (#6912508)
Because we don't have the technology to get rid of shitty jobs yet. We can't make that technology come faster by eliminating incentives to perform shitty jobs.
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Re:Basic Income Means Basic Freedom by MBlume on Sunday December 15, 2013 @10:23PM (#6912609)
We totally can make it come faster. If we institute basic income tomorrow, you seriously don't think we'll have mostly-automated McDonald's next year?
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Re:Basic Income Means Basic Freedom by olefoo on Sunday December 15, 2013 @11:04PM (#6912794)
s/mostly-automated/eliminated the need for/

If you're in a world where you don't _have_to_ work for a living; you can take your time meeting your basic sustenance needs with real food. Fast food is actually a bad deal, and most of the people eating it are doing so because they are under time-pressure of one sort or another.

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Re:Basic Income Means Basic Freedom by jotm on Monday December 16, 2013 @09:02AM (#6914699)
It's sort of like self-checkout - people don't like it, but if there are no humans, they'll (try to) use it.
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