[comstock]

I’m not really talking about providing a basic income.

What I’m saying is the barrier to having “personal autonomy” in a society where providing the essentials of life has to a high degree already been automated, is too high.

[brucephillips]

How would we provide the essentials of life other than through basic income or a similar welfare program?

[comstock]

Work for a year then take two years off? Or retire earlier? Again, I didn’t say that people wouldn’t work at all. I said that the barrier to obtaining a personal autonomy is too high in a society where providing the essentials of life has been largely automated.

We keep people working by making it had to survive otherwise (high rents that don’t represent the maintainence/construction costs etc).