• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    What you mean to say is “what is the incentive to work in a mind-numbing, soul-crushing, mental and physical health-risking job?”

    The answer is there aren’t any and no one should be forced to work those jobs even if it benefits others.

    And if a job is both necessary and unpleasant, you get people into it by offering them high pay above their universal basic income.

    UBI is not communism. It’s an end to poverty, not an end to wealth.

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      offering them high pay above their universal basic income.

      Isn’t the whole point of UBI that everyone gets it without questions or restrictions. This way you can get some extra bucks even from a low paying job, when you’re not actually relying on that job but it gets you extra

      At least that’s how it has been discussed in Finland, and it has support on both sides of the political spectrum