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4. Is your idea that a minimum income fund would be better that doubling or tripling minimum wage?
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 11:23 AM
Jul 2015

Interesting phrase, a "work culture". Is it your idea that a minimum income would allow some of the lower rungs to vacate the "work culture"?

I remember the uber-right Mort Zuckerman writing that the secret advantage to the A,erican economy is a desperate working class. The lack of job security makes us eager to work..

Interesting experiment starting in Ultrecht, to have a guaranteed minimum income.

I think it would be preferable, because the culture would become vibrant with the creative energies of millions of people who are currently too tied to the hamster wheels. Maybe a resurgence of "artisans" who supplement their living producing things in more satisfying ways than the current job market allows.

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