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If the US had Universal Healthcare and Universal Basic Income what would you be doing instead? Would you stay in your current job?

I think about this a lot and wanted to see where other people were with this. I think the above two things would free people to pursue their passions in life even if those passions didn’t lead to profits. Personally, I think we would see a new renaissance with an explosion of arts and culture the likes of which we’d never seen before here. I also think there would be an incredible amount of innovation as people would be free to tinker in their garage and come up with amazing new stuff without having to worry about paying rent or getting sick. Unfortunately, the lack of UBI and Universal Healthcare is part of the modern capitalist slavery system in which we are all trapped. But I’m curious, if we had those two things how would your life change? What would you do instead? Or do you love your job so…


I think about this a lot and wanted to see where other people were with this. I think the above two things would free people to pursue their passions in life even if those passions didn’t lead to profits.

Personally, I think we would see a new renaissance with an explosion of arts and culture the likes of which we’d never seen before here. I also think there would be an incredible amount of innovation as people would be free to tinker in their garage and come up with amazing new stuff without having to worry about paying rent or getting sick.

Unfortunately, the lack of UBI and Universal Healthcare is part of the modern capitalist slavery system in which we are all trapped.

But I’m curious, if we had those two things how would your life change? What would you do instead? Or do you love your job so much you’d keep doing it (if so, what do you do?)

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