Can't help but see a cultural shift away from a felt sense of agency shimmering between the lines, culminating in unemployment defined as "being forced against one’s will to do nothing, and of doing nothing ordinarily considered to be useful."https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1030259402052386816 …
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Optimally, an employer does provide a substrate for meaningful productivity, but to imply that the individual can't generate that substrate for him/herself contributes to a cultural miasma that's eating away at much more than just the employee-employer relationship
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It's not that a person cannot have meaningful productivity without an employer. It's just that not everyone can have a meaningful income without an employer.
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Not the claim that's being made herepic.twitter.com/72eJFAaEys
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That may be true for Kant. But, is it true that it is a general sentiment people have that they cannot be productive in a meaningful way without an employer, if income is not an issue? I don't see a reason to believe so.
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It's a claim that the author is making, and one that appears quite frequently e.g. in discussions on UBI
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