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'.

JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 317 points –

Those seem incompatible to me.

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

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Let's not pretend government intervention is gonna happen, except to make things worse for workers.

You mean like the european initiative developing a new strategy for taxation, as it is already recognized the way AI and other aggressive automation practices diminishes the tax revenue for social services?

The likes of Musk can't shake off the wolves much more.

Good for Europe.

More places can emulate

If only.

Try

Been tryin' for decades.

Keep at it

Yeah, it's funny watching people like me fail.

No, it's just that if you quit, the other side wins. And unlike yourself, I'll risk, the other part is not a good bunch.

If I don't quit, they win too. It's easy for you to tell me not to quit.

Fine. You want to quit? Do it.

Fine. You want to act like what I'm doing is easy because you already got yours? You're already doing it. I don't want to quit. I'm just not great at endurance after decades of fruitless labor.

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