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  • Why the hell do you immediately think of slavery? You don’t force people to do anything. If you need work done, you pay people to do it. Obviously.

    So just capitalism then. But with extra steps.

    And since workers have a guaranteed income to fall back upon, employers have no choice but to pay a fair wage. That’s the entire point.

    No…? The ones that work to produce would control the supply and the prices would reflect it. Kind of like that other system that starts with c.

    Seriously, if you want to understand UBI, there are whole studies available online for your reading pleasure. There are dozens of books on the subject.

    I’ve read plenty of articles about it, not sold on it. Was curious if anyone had any way to sell it. You just present it as capitalism, which i suppose is one way to do it. Though I would argue that people would stop doing necessary jobs, since they no longer need to work.


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    4 days ago

    I’m all for testing 6 hour work days.

    But the fantasy of universal income is too farfetched. Who will produce the food? Are we to collectively agree that we take turns on producing the food? I sure as hell don’t want that, and there lies the core issue. How do you force people to do things that they don’t want to do?

    Lol, these downvotes. Explain the system instead. How do you propose to force people?


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    Uhm. Most animals live by the grace of chance and circumstance. Barely getting enough to sustain life.

    I think I understand what you’re trying to say, but you can’t seriously think that pre-industrial age people were sitting around and doing nothing? Post-industrial age came with an explosion of people to match the new amount of resources. If we don’t produce the resources then people die.

    Do you want a simpler life or an easier life? Those are two very different things.