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user-inactivated  ·  2690 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My mental hurdle: Universal Basic Income

Hell, man. $12K a year out here? You can find decent apartments for $300/month and although not eating steak and caviar, you can live, have heat in winter, food on the table and tons of free time. What happens if/when we make it so comfortable to barely live that people have no ambition to do, well, anything? If everyone has that security floor, would the way people with ambition but previously no means pursue their goals in life change.

The cynic in me sees more wanna be musical artists, avant-garde painters, terrible fan fiction etc.

This is a great topic, and I am still wrapping my head around the long term consequences.