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Old 08-12-2021, 03:24 PM   #258
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog View Post
My cousin is 30 and still lives at home rent-free with her mom. She doesn't even have a job. Her only afflictions are laziness and entitlement. It gets worse; my cousin is married and hubby lives in the house too.

But to answer your question if the 'typical' 26 year old is that unmotivated, oh hell no. My cousin is a massive (heh) outlier, not the norm. Yet they way you hear people talk, you'd think she's representative of the population, and it just isn't true.
I wouldn't call your cousin a "massive outlier". Most people will try to better themselves, but not all. Also, many people, given the chance, will come up with creative definitions of employment. We'd see a lot more full time influencer types, if there was a guaranteed income. A lot of people would do things that don't pay all that much.

That's obviously great from a human capital perspective, but not so great from a collecting taxes to pay for UBI perspective.
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