Re:Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driv...
by guard-of-terra on Saturday May 16, 2015 @10:45AM
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"Getting money for not doing anything"
and then
"The way to do it is probably paying only to the unemployed"
Foe some weird reason you seem to think "unemployed" are exempt from "people not doing anything".
Anyway, the problem here is not socialism (socialism actually had mandatory labour). It is that you subsidy unemployed. You will get more unemployed. People who are forced to do nothing.
With Basic Income people are encouraged to work at least part time.
and then
"The way to do it is probably paying only to the unemployed"
Foe some weird reason you seem to think "unemployed" are exempt from "people not doing anything".
Anyway, the problem here is not socialism (socialism actually had mandatory labour). It is that you subsidy unemployed. You will get more unemployed. People who are forced to do nothing.
With Basic Income people are encouraged to work at least part time.