Why is that? Would you think less of yourself if you got money for your essential survival free from a govt, or NGO, or some other institution? What if you were living off of investments that give you a return? Technically you didn't really 'exchange' any labour for the invested returns. Would you feel the same?
This really is the question when it comes to UBI. Will people be satisfied with money for living rather than work that they exchange for money for living?
Or is it about aspiration? When I work, I can work more or work better and get more money. When it's UBI, I don't have control over what I receive.
No offense meant. I'm genuinely trying to understand. I ponder these questions about my own retirement and whether I'd be happy with money that I haven't worked for in that week (and not in the distant past).
Yes, that's the mechanism, and ideally the state uses that money to help people going through hard times. If you're arguing for better taxation and distribution, I'm with you.
Why is that? Would you think less of yourself if you got money for your essential survival free from a govt, or NGO, or some other institution? What if you were living off of investments that give you a return? Technically you didn't really 'exchange' any labour for the invested returns. Would you feel the same?
This really is the question when it comes to UBI. Will people be satisfied with money for living rather than work that they exchange for money for living?
Or is it about aspiration? When I work, I can work more or work better and get more money. When it's UBI, I don't have control over what I receive.
No offense meant. I'm genuinely trying to understand. I ponder these questions about my own retirement and whether I'd be happy with money that I haven't worked for in that week (and not in the distant past).
> Jobs are inherently undemocratic, often soul-crushing, and yet we can't seem to imagine life without them.
Being unemployed, I actually can imagine that. What I can't imagine is getting money for free, or forcing someone to give me the money they earned.
In many countries, ordinary people and business owners pay taxes so their fellow human beings don't have to suffer through hard times.
They don't pay the taxes to the fellow human beings who suffer. They pay them to the state, that doesn't.
Yes, that's the mechanism, and ideally the state uses that money to help people going through hard times. If you're arguing for better taxation and distribution, I'm with you.