😀 Tom An extended reply to #19256: Personally, I would love an income where I didn't have to work for money so I could focus on personal development and pursue a few creative endeavours. But here's a thought that I just had: people are still free to work for more money (and people will have to otherwise where does the money for basic incomes come from), so fewer people will work (exact percentage unknown), so would that increase wealth unequality that so many people are concerned about? Even with a basic income, people will still think it's "unfair" and want their money that they didn't work for.

🦿 Lucian Marin Sam Altman of Y Combinator is already starting to test the idea: blog.ycombinator.c... -- guess where it come from...

Mark Dain I wrote a reply the other day but buggy 3G managed to lose it. I think people will be happy so long as they can watch TV. The companies that replace employees with robots will get exceptionally rich but yeah if you could find someone to hire you, you can certainly have more money. While I'd like to hope people will do creative stuff, I'd imagine most won't and the term "idle hands make for the devils work" does come to mind. It makes me wonder if work will be more enjoyable as you can leave at any time; I should work on things I truly love.