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@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Universal basic income (UBI) is the idea that all people should get regular pay
UBI that itself covers all basic needs is called full, otherwise it is called partial. UBI subscribes to the idea that **the goal of [progress](progress.md) is to eliminate the need for work**, which is correct -- we should leave all work to machines eventually, that's why we started civilization. This doesn't mean we can't work, just that we aren't obliged.
The first reaction of a noob hearing about UBI is "but everyone will just stop working!" Well no, for a number of reasons (which have been confirmed by real life experiments). For example most people don't want to just survive, they want to buy nice things and have something extra, so most people will want to get some additional income. Secondly people do want to work -- work in the sense of doing something meaningful. If they don't have to be wage slaves, most will decide to dedicate their free time to doing something useful. Thirdly people are already used to working, most will keep doing it just out of inertia, e.g. because they have friends at work or simply because they actually happen to like going there.
The first reaction of a noob hearing about UBI is "but everyone will just stop working!" Well no, for a number of reasons (which have been confirmed by real life experiments). For example most people don't want to just survive, they want to buy nice things and have something extra, so most people will want to get some additional income. Secondly people do want to work -- work in the sense of doing something meaningful. If they don't have to be wage slaves, most will decide to dedicate their free time to doing something useful. Why do people have hobbies? Why did people work before money was invented? If everyone wanted to just stay in bed if not forced to do something, why do we punish criminals by locking them in a room with a bed with nothing to do? Lying in bed and doing nothing is literally a [disease](disease.md) called [depression](depression.md). Thirdly people are already used to working, it's one of the most deeply ingrained parts of our [culture](culture.md), most will keep doing it just out of [inertia](social_inertia.md), e.g. because they have friends at work or simply because they actually happen to like going there.
{ I personally know quite a lot of people with third degree disability, i.e. people who basically already DO have a basic income -- they get an equivalent of salary for free every month as well as full health and social insurance. Most of them voluntarily go to work even though they don't have to, despite the fact that it is NOT recommended for these people to do so and despite them actually risking their disability pension being taken away for this, which happens. AND these are people with the worst disabilities for whom it actually IS physically much more difficult to work, and they still do it. I have talked to the people, they simply say they are bored at home, they want to feel useful and also have something extra to buy nice things. I.e. it is literally confirmed in practice that people will not stop working with UBI. ~drummyfish }