😀 Tom Universal Basic Income is the hot topic right now, but what I think would be better instead, is a paid 2-3 month vacation every year. I think that a lot of the benefits that UBI supposedly touts, can probably be achieved with a real break from work, and without giving up work altogether. This way, people can still be incentivized to work, but still have the ability to persue other creative endeavors.

🏒 Lucian Marin This is exactly what I want. Three months will be perfect on working on projects like Sublevel. But I don't think we will get free money. We still have to work on something.

Mark Dain I used to think of UBI as "paying people to exist" which I can understand is sort of weird and reeks of communism, but if you consider millions being unemployed permanently due to a lack of jobs, the economy is going to be in a lot of trouble. Either we just move to a post-money society, or we give everyone some money so they can continue buying/selling/etc. I'd like to hope most people would use their new time and freedom to work full time on projects they love.

🏒 Lucian Marin Or we're going to invent new jobs, like a Facebook cleaner for @netopwibby or anything that now seems trivial but we lack motivation or time to do it ourselves.

Mark Dain It's true we can invent new jobs, but we may not be able to create enough to go round. Example: let's say self driving trucks results in 1 million being unemployed, there's a lot of people now looking for work. Waymo probably employs 100 people. So that's 10,000 jobs lost per 1 person working in tech. Do that over many industries and we have a really serious issue: Waymo created 100 jobs but obsoleted 10,000 in the process. That's not scalable. Sure, Facebook and Google created (and their respective platforms support) thousands of jobs, but that's older tech; tech today is all about replacing human labor.