(May 4, 2017 at 1:23 pm)Grandizer Wrote: But why quit unless you don't really enjoy your job?
Also, with massive unemployment, people quitting and living on the government's teat is sort of the point. Jobs will be scarce. They will not go unfilled.
If you keep the UBI at the poverty line, you'll not only have to raise wages to attract workers, but you'll open up the jobs market for those that want to work.
The economic snowball is the issue here, would a massive economic change like this have unintended consequences with inflation and cost of living? Probably. But my guess is that it would be bad enough the way it's going that people would take a swing for the fences.
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