Only a third of has college degrees; all income gains go to college-educated—and self-driving trucks are rolling out. Why is anyone worried? https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/806497118563270656 …
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UBI could allow people to pursue work that is more meaningful but yields less $, or work that is higher risk but could yield more $
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no short term fix, but need to derive meaning/structure from full-day labor is a learned thing. Need to start un-teaching it.
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You can only un-teach in a democracy it the society is not mired in great inequality, though.
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But those things don't need to come from paid employment ethr. Why not from things like volunteer work, arts, socializing, etc?
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Basically, look at people who have already moved past need to work (e.g. heirs). Where do they derive meaning?
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Vonnegut explored this decades ago in Player Piano. Majority of country with stable means but no meaning breeding discontent.
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The idea that everyone will just "do art" is optimistic but doomed.
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If you had work (much shorter hours)+decent pay+less inequality, that can emerge. Good work & pay—not small pay-off.https://twitter.com/meelar/status/806973025702866944 …
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I used that book in the first class I taught post PhD "You're useless; so here's some food" isn't what people are.https://twitter.com/msfeldstein/status/806973715682508800 …
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why does it have to be small?
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If it was closer to median income, well. But that is far more than what even the most radical UBI vision is at.
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