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RE: Universal Basic Income UBI (and why it is needed)
Agreed. Resteemed you! UBI is one of the most important things that we will need to develop going forward.
I am all for automation. Let machines do the work, and let people lead conscious, elevated lives, free from meaningless work.
We should only be doing things that bring true value to humanity. But no one should ever starve or lack housing. There is already enough wealth in the world, it is time to distribute both the wealth, and the free time more equally.
Exactly, studies have proven when we don't need to work for money we will have a better community and we will still get things done, people will still work (because most always want more) and when all people have more money then everyone can also afford solar panels, electric cars and so on.
Green Sustainable future all around the globe.
I think that we will need to have a rather massive shift in education. Most people currently are not taught how to identify and pursue passions, teach themselves things independently, manage their time, or how to be spiritually/emotionally/intellectually peaceful.
When I talk about this new wage-earning-free paradigm with people of my father's generation, they always say, "But work gives people meaning. People will become criminals if they have no meaning in their lives." First, there is no meaning in working a crap job, and people can still become "criminals" (such a loaded term, I HATE it) if they have meaningless, underpaid, and exploitative jobs. Second, people will make beautiful meaning if they are educated in a way that would support this new world paradigm.
Thanks for continuing this conversation.
The main reason I am involved in this as much as I am, at the age of 19 I was working fulltime & paying for my own education "So each day after school I was a cab driver working till the night." And I don't think this should be possible in the current society we live in, everyone says we all have fair chances yet coming where I come from my employers only gave me a chance to shut up and work, no education, no courses to follow "at least I can say I'm self-thought" you can learn lots of stuff for free you just don't get the papers it doesn't mean you don't learn anything!
Ps. sololearn.com actually does give certificates "making use of it as well so might as well advertise" especially since it's FREE :P
All I actually want to say is a basic income could provide things for some which are completely normal for others, like parents that can afford your education would of been nice "and I'm sure I'm not the only one" Shit happens all around.
Namasté.