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Kirill Illenseer wrote:

Well, not entirely. I got hired for having a degree sinmply because it indicated to my now-employer that I'm a bright head capable of learning. Apart of that, that's about it.

A college degree proves that you can put up with four years of <nonsense>.
If you can put up with that, you can put up with a job.

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I've got through my entire ToDo list, and ticked everything off.

Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

Did you tick off people too?

1. A large number of people will quit their jobs, intending to go on a trip around the world, write the Great <whatever> Novel, etc.
2. It will be difficult to find people to perform the essential jobs; the standard of living for everyone goes down (think what happens when all the sanitation workers quit...)
3. After a while, some people may return to their jobs, having worked it out of their system
4. Many (most?) of the essential workers, from Doctors to Garbage Collectors, will need to be lured back to their jobs by better conditions than they had before UBI
5. This results in a decreasing of the size of the pot, possibly making UBI untenable

1. The gross planetary product is so high that feeding all the drones is a trivial expense
2. All of the drudgery and "sh*t" jobs can be automated
3. There are enough people who are willing to do the remaining jobs for the sheer "fun" of it.

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:

I once read a definition of a civilized man as "A person who can keep himself busy all day even when he doesn't have to go to work".

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:

feeding all the drones

Leng Vang wrote:

The 1% will always try to take advantage of the 99%.