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jenroses:
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i feel like this thing where people are going stir-crazy and want something to do less than a week after being explicitly ordered to stay home under threat of disease and death kind of blows a hole in that “if we give people universal basic income everybody will just be lazy and won’t want to work” talking point
The number of artists, writers and musicians dumping output for free to cheer us up is right there in the “people will do productive things because the things need to be done” department.
jenroses:
livebloggingmydescentintomadness:
i feel like this thing where people are going stir-crazy and want something to do less than a week after being explicitly ordered to stay home under threat of disease and death kind of blows a hole in that “if we give people universal basic income everybody will just be lazy and won’t want to work” talking point
The number of artists, writers and musicians dumping output for free to cheer us up is right there in the “people will do productive things because the things need to be done” department.
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Date: 2020-03-26 12:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-03-26 09:36 pm (UTC)I mean, okay, if we had universal income the things people chose to do might be more along the lines of "walk the dog a mile and a half" and "knit three miles of scarves" rather than "sit in an office for eight hours." But I'm still not convinced that's equivalent to ""laziness""!
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Date: 2020-03-27 12:31 pm (UTC)