Basic income my solve world hunger, but will destroy incentive to work. Resulting in a zombie majority.
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Basic income my solve world hunger, but will destroy incentive to work. Resulting in a zombie majority.
This is not true. People still have an incentive to get ahead, to have more. People may be less willing to do bullshit work, but good, hand it over to the robots. Work for work's sake is pointless.
Plus, reastically we are heading into a meritocracy. Technology is a work multiplier, and thus two people who would have produced comparable wealth before are no longer comparable. A skilled coder can produce a piece of software that can perform the work of 10,000 workers. But if you make him and 5000 other workers slave away just because everyone should work, you are being inefficent, the oppurtunity cost is way too high. And thats if the other 5,000 never want extra money or a creative pursuit.
And thats only talking about the 1 in X000 type people. The one in a million or 10 million ? How much wealth is being lost from them seeking job security?
@rodent has a good glue! It is also important to understand that money given directly to people is valued by people and society/ies! Therefore if people just become lazy, prices go up, and thus creates pressure to make more income, wich in turn obviously encourages working!
Dream on.
Are the wealthy zombies?
They dont have to work..they have no incentive...
There will be rich zombie.
No that's a cop out. Someone had to work in order to accumulate that wealth.
You ever hear of a DAO?
And who is working to accumulate wealth on the steem blockchain?
Not the billions of zombies free weekly checks will create.
If people could become just zombies, then communisn would have worked. I would also like to mention antique greek, where people had personal slaves to do their dirty work, as being one of the most politically, artistically and scientifically advanced societies. They discovered that word is a round long ago and also have two of the most influential philosophers in history, Aristotele and Plato + many others.
So what are so saying. free money will solve the worlds problems?
No, free time will.