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by yadoomerta 1258 days ago
^ Might be the only good skeptical of UBI take in the whole thread.

I share your worries, it does seem like it will have to be in some way tied to cost-of-living. Done right, where you can actually have the honest threat of being able to quit your job without worries, I think it would give a lot of leverage to workers.

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It would be an absolute game changer imo. So much of the ills on a individual, family, and society level can be traced back to all adults needing to spend the majority of their life working jobs they most often don’t like, and then not having any time or energy for anything else.