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by rdc12 3987 days ago
How many people are capable of doing nothing thou, 9x% of people will still find something productive (either in the current commercial sence or more the art/craft sence) or find someother way to find satisfy their more personal needs/desires.

There is an anecdote of a Canadian town that tried (for ~1 year) this during the 80's and one of the people they focussed one, got a job as the janitor at the local high school and loved it so much, that by choice he was there post retirment age.

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-mincome-experiment-daup... (same trial, different story)

1 comments

I agree with you. Thank you for the link and let's see how our Dutch friends play the game! ;-)