Most people want a lot more out of life than basic necessities.

Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

UBI does not mean you don't work, nor you can't earn a lot of money. It just means we don't let you starve if you don't work and we stop making you work out of fear of leaving you starve if you don't.

I'm a psychiatry resident and developper. I have never been paid for my dev work but have produced quite a lot on my free time (site: w.olicorne.org ). I would do psychiatry pretty much no matter how much I'm paid for it.

In my view the most productive people of every field are not incentivized by money and would do it anyway. UBI would free up time and cognitive load of the most productive people I believe. Following a 80/20 kinda rule.

Hence UBI here would mean that the dev would not *have to* monetize.

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jonahx 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> In my view the most productive people of every field are not incentivized by money and would do it anyway.

The idea that money is not an effective incentive to drive behavior is wishful thinking. Even just among devs, even just among devs who truly love programming, most would be doing very different work, and working for different organizations (or none at all) if money weren't the driver.

> Hence UBI here would mean that the dev would not have to monetize.

Ok, but the dev might still want to monetize, and we're back to the original question.

	▲	laserlight an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> Ok, but the dev might still want to monetize, and we're back to the original question. It's alright. Those who would like to monetize can. There are others who wouldn't and UBI would utilize that surplus talent, which otherwise had to perform tasks they weren't skilled at to earn a living.

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TechSquidTV 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But they want to was the point.

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djeastm 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Indeed. Some of us want basic necessities provided to everyone.