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Do you think UBI will be the future of the world? (lemmy.world)

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I was once talking with one of my classmates and he said that in the future, there will be universal basic income implemented by entire world. I was not convinced at that time and thought he is just being stupid but given the layoffs happening and massive amount of unemployment, I am thinking about this possibility. What do you say?

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[-] bdot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

i think you get my point, though. during the pandemic, the garden centres emptied out, because people wanted to grow their own food.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Growing your own food isn't the same as growing food for 10,000 people at all. My family's been growing a portion of our own food all my life, don't think any of us wants to work 12+ hour days in the fields in the summer.

[-] bdot@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

plenty of people find satisfaction from doing that sort of thing. i know i do. problem is - i just can’t afford the risk of devoting all of time to that right now, because there’s no guarantee for my financial security.

i also make my own maple syrup, and keep bees. would raise chickens, if my local bylaws weren’t so outdated.

and i never claimed that I would be doing it for 10K people. where’d ya get that number from?

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