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We would collapse back to a subsistence-level economy, but sure.



Why? Is the fear of starvation the only thing that makes people do things?


I don't get what you are advocating. If you don't pay people to do jobs, then most jobs that make up a complex society won't get done. We have complex institutions, that involve lots of people doing boring tasks that keep the institutions running. Without the institutions, society will in fact return to subsistence-level.

If you just mean that we should guarantee a certain level of income, like a UBI, then that will make no difference whatsoever for this question. We don't have lawyers and middle managers because otherwise they will starve, because those jobs pay more than any plausible minimum.


> If you don't pay people to do jobs, then most jobs that make up a complex society won't get done.

I'm advocating for paying people enough to not die even if they don't do any job.

And I'm not saying that it will immediately do away with all bullshit jobs. But I'm saying that it will reduce supply of work available to those jobs and it will broaden the choice for workers to choose more meaningful jobs by giving them safe harbor.




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