Same as now. My 40+ hr/wk making the world what it is, pays much better than any UBI. Until there’s a better solution for affordable housing and healthcare for my family, education for my kids, and retirement for me, I’m staying in the rat race
Negative Income Tax as proposed by Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman is a much much much better implementation than a straight up UBI.
I would lobby for our government to take Invasive Plants seriously. Sales of invasive plants needs to be banned from nurseries, and Highways/gov land owning entities need more money invested towards habitat restoration.
I’m with you, from the urban design perspective. Our cities should be fitting into nature as best they can, not steamrolling thousands of acres of ecosystems. You’d also free up the labor of all the people who will have to fix this mismanagement down the road.
If the job I already do does make the world better does that count or do I need to work 80 hours a week to get something that’s ‘universial’
Arguing with people on lemmy, people are wrong and the internet and the world totally needs my opinions to correct them.
I guess I’d keep doing my current job and enjoy the extra income by spending it on luxurious things like grounded electrical outlets and updated plumbing that isn’t falling apart.
Its funny that basis things like working plumbing, or access go clean water could be considered luxurious.
I would keep my current job as well but take a day off each week (instead of one of my weekend days) to cleanup my surrounding neighbourhood. I would probably use the extra income to repair some wood benches, buy paint to cleanup graffiti on walls, and throw down grass seeds along local trails.
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Same as I do now, working 20 hrs/week doing fun stuff. Basic income wouldn’t be enough to support what I do to make myself happy.
I’m a developer, I have some open source projects I don’t have the time to invest in… I’d probably shift like 40% of my time to that open source projects.
I’m with you on the 40% thing. If I didn’t need to put in 40hrs to get my health insurance, I would absolutely work on several smaller tasks instead of 1 big job, just to avoid the burnout that comes with doing the same thing for those long stretches of time. It also gives us context and allows us to make connections that we may not otherwise make.
My current job is receiving/dispatching IT equipment to keep hospitals running, so I think I’d keep doing what I’m doing. It’s a modest contribution, but someone has to make sure the people working on cures for cancer can get their email.
One of the unsung heros… no sarcasm. I chose not to imagine my dentist drilling around or my surgeon slicing me up without all their fancy tools and software. Why, because it’s horrifying. Thank you for your contributions.
I think I’d keep my current job. 40/wk is the grind I worked to get away from.
I live in a shitty neighborhood with minimal options for kids and a lot of litter. First thing I’m doing is opening a nonprofit, daycare for kids ages 7-14. We’ll focus on gaming, tabletop, and casual activity as well as local activism and civil service. We’ll also teach cyber responsibility and privacy, kids are going to be on the internet more than any of us were growing up and someone needs to stop them from falling into the pipelines we did.
That would be awesome. I don’t know where you live, but in the US, with everything being so car-centric, there are few activities that are accessible to kids without money and begging parents for a ride.
Talked to someone close to me about the internet thing for 2-3 hours just the other day. We can’t legislate something like this, it has to be taught.
Great answer. I hope you win the lotto and can do this while living a comfortable life!
I’m a mechanical engineer product designer so using that for where I can to protect coral reefs
Convincing whoever’s in charge of checking up on that sort of thing that the world is better off if I stay inside at least 40 hours a week.
Universal basic income means no requirement to do anything.
However as a worker in healthcare, I’d probably continue as I am.
I work in residential therapy. If me helping people with serious trauma progress their therapy and develop healthier lifestyle routines and prevent self harming doesn’t constitute as solving societal probems then I want to know what the person defining who gets UBI is smoking
