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Hard work pays off
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Just like today, most of us are "not slaves" and many even take pride in being exploited.
It still happening, it is a tricky balance. Simplifying the situation to the following makes reasonable.. if you have a gold mine that generate 1 million coin a day, and you have a population of 1 million, and you secure jobs such as mining, tools makers, home builders, farmers, governor, and military. But you end up with a 300,000 people or families with no jobs.
If you gave every person a coin a day, then people who work harder or risky job will figure they better not work and enjoy life, so it would make sense to start making useless projects to keep people employee and restore some sort of balance.
The issue when the balance is exploited like what happens in modern governments.
No. People enjoy the feeling of being useful. They want to contribute.
Speak for yourself. If I could afford to not work I absolutely wouldn't work.
studies on UBI shows that to be a pretty uncommon stance.
So, if your food and housing was taken care of you would just stare at the ceiling all day?
I might, if that's what I felt like doing that day. The first thing I'd do would be to sleep for a year.
Of course not. I'd probably spend most of it hiking or pursuing other leisure activities. Things can be fun without being useful.
Absolutely. I can live without working but I do bc I want to be able to do those extras, the sense of accomplishment, as well as socialization.
There's a difference between not being employed and literally doing nothing.
If you don't know what to do with yourself when you're not being literally told what to do for the majority of your week, that's a you problem.