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How would we provide the essentials of life other than through basic income or a similar welfare program?



Work for a year then take two years off? Or retire earlier? Again, I didn’t say that people wouldn’t work at all. I said that the barrier to obtaining a personal autonomy is too high in a society where providing the essentials of life has been largely automated.

We keep people working by making it had to survive otherwise (high rents that don’t represent the maintainence/construction costs etc).




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