This is a gross oversimplification. People who are motivated by external pressure are motivated to do what, exactly? What external pressure dictates. And if you found yourself unmotivated due to lack of external pressure, _you could just get a job._
Basic income doesn't make working illegal, does it?
If someone thought they could write a book, well, now they can try. So what if they fail? Then they will get another job. Or they will get better at writing. Or they will live in poverty.
Do you really think external motivation will disappear because people have subsistence income? Do you think you'd like to sit around for years on end doing nothing and living in poverty while everybody else goes out there and makes their lives better? What's not 'external motivation' about that?
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Guaranteeing someone a McJob really only wastes people's time. Their employers know it; they could get better work cheaper from a machine. They know it; the job sucks and isn't useful. We all know it. It would be shit policy.
Basic income doesn't make working illegal, does it?
If someone thought they could write a book, well, now they can try. So what if they fail? Then they will get another job. Or they will get better at writing. Or they will live in poverty.
Do you really think external motivation will disappear because people have subsistence income? Do you think you'd like to sit around for years on end doing nothing and living in poverty while everybody else goes out there and makes their lives better? What's not 'external motivation' about that?
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Guaranteeing someone a McJob really only wastes people's time. Their employers know it; they could get better work cheaper from a machine. They know it; the job sucks and isn't useful. We all know it. It would be shit policy.