The more I read about UBI, the more I think it's a good idea. Not because, as much of the media and government will say, it is something for nothing, but because it is something for everyone.
Those who still want to work their 40, 50, 60+ hour a week jobs can. Those who want to have lives of luxury, full of the latest designer everything, can still work to achieve that.
But those who can't, or would prefer not to, work those kind of hours can reduce them. Those who don't look for the material in life, but the personal, the spiritual, the familial, those who are happy living on a basic income, could even quit the 9-5 world all together. Instead they could, and would, oh let's think ... be a parent, write a book, create the next big invention, plant a forest, enrich others.
The future, we all, know is changing, and we have to change the way we think to survive it. There won't be enough jobs as technology keeps improving ... there aren't now if the figures are to be believed ... I have seen more than one blogged report in past months showing that there are many times more people unemployed than there are jobs being advertised. Full employment is a pipe dream.
Instead we should start looking to other ways in which we can improve ourselves, and the world around us. Give the thinkers time to think, give the carers time to care, allow the artists the chance to create beautiful things that we can all appreciate.
Yes, I'm sure, especially at first, there will be some who just do not work, who do nothing at all. It is a fact of the human persona that some people are like this. But even they will get bored eventually. Even they will wake up one day and long for something more ... because that is also part of being human.
But even if they don't, that is their choice.
http://realfare.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/6-ways-of-progress-the-universal-basic-income
Think on it ... what would you do with your life, if you had the absolute choice?
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