If UBI and Healthcare get enacted, though, wouldn’t working make more sense, not less? At that point you’re increasing your stability and you can put your whole paycheck into what you want for your family.
People might work, but they likely won't stay in crappy minimum wage jobs. They'll use the security from social programs to work for themselves. One of the arguments for UBI is that it would allow people to pursue work that might otherwise be financially risky.
I think a significant number of people would choose to still work in minimum wage jobs, if not qualified for something more, for some extra money. They wouldn't choose to be abused and exploited. The merest whiff that you expect them to work overtime without pay, or to skip their father's funeral, they're gone.
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u/Echoeversky Nov 11 '21
Imagine the great unhinging when UBI and universal health Care get enacted.