When talking to people who dislike UBI about UBI, they'll often say both that 'people need a purpose in life' and that 'nobody will work if they get free money'. - eviltoast

Those seem incompatible to me.

(UBI means Universal Basic Income, giving everyone a basic income, for free)

  • ZahzenEclipse@kbin.social
    314·
    10 months ago

    Society couldn’t function if most people worked like you. I’m happy for you and it’s the exact place I want to be but I think its only possible in our current framework.

      • ZahzenEclipse@kbin.social
        2·
        10 months ago

        We’re still a far way away from the level of automation necessary to make working only 2 days a week feasible imo

      • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works
        42·
        10 months ago

        Also, a fair bit of work is work for the sake of work. It doesn’t enrich society, just the capitalism machine. So if UBI were enacted on a large scale, there is plenty of unnecessary work that can go by the wayside.

    • moriquende@lemmy.world
      6·
      10 months ago

      It actually could. Imagine if salary had increased in accordance to the productivity boosts that automation has brought. Then you could have 3 people, working 2 days a week, sharing a job and being able to live from it. After all, it used to take more than 3 people to do the work a single person does nowadays.

      • ZahzenEclipse@kbin.social
        34·
        10 months ago

        Why would a business pay for these things that make their workers more efficient and then relinquish all of the profit that came from making things more efficient?

        • DeadlineX@lemm.ee
          5·
          10 months ago

          There’s a difference between “society couldn’t function” and “companies are too greedy”. One of them is wrong and the other needs to change.