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Laaas on Jan 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tell HN: Sometimes you don't realise how bad somet...

The issue with UBI is that some people start doing "jobs" that aren't productive, like Factorio.

wildrhythms on Jan 21, 2023 [–]

So what? People play Factorio all day today in absence of UBI. You don't think those people could, given a newfound economic freedom, be better positioned to pursue real-life 'productive' forms of Factorio labor that they're passionate about like robotics, logistics...?

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