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RE: What would I do if everyone had a basic income? My own answer to the BIG question.

in #basicincome7 years ago

For some reason, we tend to think that everyone has the worst, laziest of intentions. As if everyone always cheats when they aren't watched, or lies when they aren't checked. We feel like everyone else is that way. And so we hear arguments about how people wouldn't work if they didn't have to. And what turns out to actually be true is that when basic survival isn't a concern, people actually work harder, they just call it play at that point. They enjoy.

This, universal healthcare, and the wrapping of psychological and dental care into that, would fix a hell of a lot of bad things.