[andrewaylett]

I'm still not settled on whether I think it's a good outcome, but my understanding is that we'd have to pay more to get people to do these jobs and I'm not sure that's altogether a bad thing.

If you've got a tedious job that you need doing, at the moment there are four options:

* Pay enough that someone wants to do it.

* Make the job sufficiently interesting that someone wants to do it.

* Do without.

* Rely on someone needing the money enough that they'll do it anyway.

Basic income removes the last option, adding extra incentive to the others. I've never been in a position where I've been forced to take a job doing something I hate for too little money just to get food on the table, and I'd very much prefer never to be put in that position. I don't want to put other people in that position either.

[Jedd]

> If you've got a tedious job that you need doing, at the moment there are four options:

Three of your options involve persuading someone else doing it, the fourth is having it not done.

Why is there not an option of doing it yourself?