UBI would be nice. Imagine working at a job you like because you like it, not because you need it to survive.
First, I’d like to preface by stating that I am a firm proponent of UBI, but i am under no illusion that life under UBI would be utopic, or even not miserable. The most likely scenario would be as life under “basic” on Earth was described in The Expanse book series. Necessary, but no picnic.
If only it were that simple.
It literally can be that simple if pedophiles didn’t steal it from us daily
We live in different realities.
You don’t seem to be living in reality.
Unemployed with money, however… I spent about 5 years ‘unemployed’ and living on income protection insurance, which gave me about AUD7000/month. It was great!
I was looking for a job and then I found a job
And heaven knows I’m miserable now
It’s a double decker bus.
you need to stop looking out the window and stare at your phone instead
Yeah, that’s where your DraftKings™️ account is.
Man, I feel this. Either face losing everything you own, starvation and homelessness or stuff your misery down deep and drag your sorry ass to yet another shift at the dream crushing factory.
Having just gotten an offer after 9 months of being jobless, I can relate to this. Although the 1k/month hike vs my previous job is a nice incentive.
Just gotta find that middle ground of becoming nemployed
Those luscious green hills over there? Oh that’s where the Epstein-class billionaires get to enjoy watching us fight each other over scraps they send down to us.
The opposite of this is “getting hired” and “quitting”
Suppose that, at a given moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins as before. But the world does not need twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world, everybody concerned in the manufacture of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this way, it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything more insane be imagined?
–Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness
“I was looking for a job, then I found a job. And heavens knows I’m miserable now.”
I could probably retire (I’m old) if it weren’t for needing health care. It would be so nice to live in a proper country.
IMHO: UBI would force companies to pay employees properly. Because the employees would not be forced to agree to shit conditions and scams.
Idk, I really like my job. It’s only been 6 months though, I guess we’ll see