04-24-2023, 07:13 PM
(04-24-2023, 11:56 AM)grampahol Wrote: UBI isn't ever going to be enough money for anyone with a brain to decide they never have to work or otherwise find another way to raise some money.. The key word in it is BASIC..just basic enough to get by without starving..just basic enough to keep you from having to sleep in the snow and rain..
The biggest stigmas are the misleading and outrageous claims that everyone is going to just quit work and settle for just the basics of food and shelter and little more. Mortgages aren't going away, car loans aren't either and people aren't going to stop wanting to go out to eat and on and on. Those who may squander the precious few resources they might be guaranteed? Well, those folks are always going to be a lost cause regardless of whether they work for it or have it given to them. There's more than enough people with good incomes that drive themselves to bankruptcy through stupid investments or just spending too damned much for frivolous crap. Most everyone with a garage usually has if filled to the rafters with crap they'll never use and yet pretend it's all the most valuable crap they have to defend with their lives..Basically stupid crap. I live in a fairly high income area and build cabinets, but customers are almost always pleading poverty when it comes to the paint or whether to use expensive drawer slides or the cheap crap.. They could have 5 new cars in the driveway, but ask them whether they want heavy duty drawer slides that will last the life of their house or cheap crap from China? It's almost always Chinese crap..Go figure.
Nah..Basic income is just that..Basic, not luxury, not a room at the Carlton Ritz and a not a mega yacht.. Hell, it's not even the choice of high quality drawer slides or cheap Chinese crap slides. It's more the choice of a roof/no roof and eating/ not eating.
It's not about people voluntarily quitting work to live on UBI.
It's about AI wiping out so many fields of employment that they're aren't enough better-paying jobs to keep people from needing UBI to survive.
