This disincentivizes working and incentivizes not working.
Some might see that as a good thing. Being forced to do something you hate for fear of not being able to feed your family is probably not healthy for anyone involved. Imagine if that person could quit their job and spend time with their kids instead.
Imagine the passionate painter or musician being able to paint or make music full time without worrying about having to pay rent next month.
Imagine the corporate programmer being able to quit his job and work 6 month on that open source project he always wanted to do.
As someone who actively enjoys his job and looks forwards to going to work most mornings, I think it would be kind of neat if more people could feel that.
Sure some people will just use their new freedom to drink beer and watch TV all day, but perhaps those people weren't contributing too much to begin with, making the net loss minor.
The main 'down' side would be that getting people to do 'shit' jobs will get harder and more expensive, but I think that might work out to be a reasonable price to pay.
Personally I'm not really convinced the numbers add up economically to make it actually viable, but I see it as an interesting utopia.
We're all "forced" to work because living requires resources. This is not an effect of civilization - wild animals work harder for their livings, and have nasty brutish lives to boot.
If the corporate programmer is willing to live a very frugal life (See Mr. Money Mustache, Jacob Lundfisker, etc.), then it won't take him or her very long at all to build up a 6-month cost-of-living fund. Perhaps it takes working three months to six months? (I know it's possible because I've done it.) And I'm not sure it's the job of society to support artists in their art independent of its value to society. At least I know I'm not interested in supporting it in my taxes. So I'm not so sure these examples are persuasive.
However, I do agree that it will become much harder to get people to do 'shit' jobs. One side effect is that it would give a serious additional kick towards automation, and so long as BI is implemented, that's good thing in terms of elevating the human condition.
Some might see that as a good thing. Being forced to do something you hate for fear of not being able to feed your family is probably not healthy for anyone involved. Imagine if that person could quit their job and spend time with their kids instead.
Imagine the passionate painter or musician being able to paint or make music full time without worrying about having to pay rent next month.
Imagine the corporate programmer being able to quit his job and work 6 month on that open source project he always wanted to do.
As someone who actively enjoys his job and looks forwards to going to work most mornings, I think it would be kind of neat if more people could feel that.
Sure some people will just use their new freedom to drink beer and watch TV all day, but perhaps those people weren't contributing too much to begin with, making the net loss minor.
The main 'down' side would be that getting people to do 'shit' jobs will get harder and more expensive, but I think that might work out to be a reasonable price to pay.
Personally I'm not really convinced the numbers add up economically to make it actually viable, but I see it as an interesting utopia.