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    1. andrewchen‏ @andrewchen Jan 31
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      Question- fast forward into the future where robots do everything and universal basic income fully subsidizes peoples' living, what are they most likely to do with all their time?

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 31
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      I think you'll see substantial sharding of society before that point, between folks spending their life in dissipation, folks who live a rather bohemian lifestyle, folks who are mildly productive for essentially cultural reasons, and folks who are ~100% engaged in competition.

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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 31
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          One way of considering this is asking "How will humans live in an inconceivably rich society?", remembering "Hmm, somebody probably asked this question in 1800", and using our cheat code of living in the future to persuasively answer that question to the folks asking in 1800.

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        3. Jeffrey Richman  😷‏ @jcrichman Jan 31
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          If history teaches us anything it's that scarcity has little to do with people's desire to control other people.

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        1. Wordy McWordinson‏ @walmflinsdorf Jan 31
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          This is already what we do.

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        1. Lonny Kapelushnik‏ @LonnyLot Feb 1
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          I think this is now, no?

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        2. Marat Vyshegorodtsev‏ @MaratVy Jan 31
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          I like how you assume that UBI can **fully** subsidize the living. Can I please have a house in Monterey, CA subsidized by UBI? Or you suggesting that everyone should be satisfied by living in a communist residential paradise aka “khrushchyovka”? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchyovka …

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        3. Noah Gibbs‏ @codefolio Jan 31
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          And *that* - "but I want my house to be in Monterey!" - is where the "competition" bit comes in. There *is* middle ground between the worst and the best, and people *are* willing to live in, say, the Midwest of the USA (not terrible, far from the best weather and status.)

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        2. Adith Arun‏ @aditharun21 Jan 31
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          Agreed. Instead of doing things out of necessity, people will pursue what makes them intrinsically content.

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        3. Conor‏ @itsconorwelch Feb 2
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          What if doing things out of necessity = contentment?

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        1. Obie Fernandez‏ @obie Feb 1
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          This sounds pretty close to current reality

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        1. Dogs Don't Make Jokes Near Humorless People‏ @MorlockP Feb 1
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          We're 90% there

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