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Originally Posted by Mathgod
You may not have said it per se, but it's a prevalent attitude that tends to be present in people who are against UBI.
Again going back to the motivation video I posted earlier... based on your feedback on the video, it seems like you ignored the bulk of what was actually said in it. It explicitly said that money is a tremendous motivator for grunt-work jobs; jobs that are physically demanding. This means jobs like construction, farm work, power plants, water treatment plants, etc. Make these jobs well paying (emphasis on well paying), and people will work them. As for the skilled trades, they are a mixture of menial and non-menial work, so money is still a strong motivator for those tasks as well.
Another key take away from the video that you seem to have missed, is the fact that people are driven by purpose. People aren't just going to constantly sit at home and tinker, when they could collaborate with others to achieve greater things and contribute to society in a more meaningful way.
There's nothing modest about it. It would be a game changer in terms of giving people the power to say no to any situation where they feel they are being exploited.
It would cause a shift in society's focus from its current rampant consumerism, exploitation of one another, and destruction of the planet, to a healthy balance between consumerism and modesty.
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You make the classic mistake of thinking money and capitalism cause our behaviour, in truth our behaviour is what causes capitalism, we want to be better than our peers, be that a nicer deer skin or a porsche, we are desperate to achieve status, the stuff we buy is just an attempt to display our status, it isnt a coincidence a dominant baboon's arse is the same colour as a Ferrari