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▲ johnsmith1840 2 hours ago

Because UBI studies found it makes people perform significantly worse than without it. They didn't get better. Humans require toil, we require pain to function.

Matrix was a good point to this. They made the world a utopia and people couldn't handle it. Our monkey brains require pain give us a utopia and we'll just walle ourselves to death.

▲gjm11 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What UBI studies found this?

(The ones I've heard about, I'm fairly sure, didn't find anything of the kind. Which isn't to say that they show we should have UBI; there are big gaps between what has been tested so far and what an actual economy with UBI would look like.)

▲greazy an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I've never heard of a UBI experiment that limited "toil". Nearly all UBI studies I've come across show an improvement in life satisfaction, reduced homelessness, drug use, etc.

I think you've taken the "work less" that was found in some studies to suggest they needed "toil". They simply found it somewhere else.