| > Productivity equals production. Yep, and when significant numbers of people simply stop working, as has been demonstrated in every experiment on basic income, production drops similarly. 0 work * any finite rate of production = 0 output. Recessions/depressions are caused by smaller drops in production than those seen in basic income. Production includes food, medicine, services, and things that make life better for all. >A small team of engineers who design and create a machine to build brick walls en masse, could have the same productivity as hundreds of thousands of bricklayers working 16 hours a day. Then let them do it. That they have not done so thus far is not because we didn't have basic income. Postulating this mythical event as a counter to the empirical evidence that production did drop significantly during actual basic income is not compelling. >generally more efficient and sustainable to have better education and social conditions for workers, than to exploit them Then start such a company, and your better, happier, more efficient workers should beat out those other inefficient companies. Again, this hasn't happened, despite many people trying to make such companies, only to realize that things don't work this way for valid reasons. |