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it's all about education and sozialisation. people want to be recognized for their achievements. they don't want to be recognized as a couch potato. if what you say were true, then why would anyone work more than what they need to cover their expenses now?

yes, people say they don't want to work. but what they really mean is that they don't want to work bad jobs just because they have to.

why do people do volunteer work? again, what incentive to do volunteers work do people have now? lots of work without much reward. yet people still do it. UBI won't change that, but it will give more people the opportunity to do volunteer work, or do more of it.

many jobs today are not actually producutive for society. people do them because they pay. and they will continue doing them because UBI won't enable you to have expensive vacations or other luxuries that you might enjoy.

on the other hand, people stuck in bad jobs may be enabled to quit them, because it won't cost them their home or their insurance. pay will rise because people don't need to accept hard labor for minimum wage anymore.





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