Eugen Leitl wrote:
If we assume naturally driven people are most productive,
and that many such are caught up in suboptimal configurations
(the usual accursed $dayjob, aka the salt mines) then providing
a baseline financial security would result in increased
productivity. And of the best quality: love's labour, literally.
On the other tentacle, it would encourage nonproductive menial
barely ekeing it out to drop out altogether, thus becoming a resource
sink, not source.
It would be a kind of difficult to agree upon what productivity means to
whom in that case.
There's a fork pending in the world's line: in a world where everyone's
an enterpreneur, running on his own risk, and the world where the state
steps in, and saves people from fucking up their own life too badly.
Both can't co-exist, long-term.
Why not?
