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Originally Posted by Damien
But the world is better than it was however many years ago that was  . Over the last 20-30 years people can travel further for cheaper, they can communicate which distant people easier and cheaper almost instantly wherever they are, we carry devices around that allow us to do that or find out almost any information we want at a moment's notice and fewer people are dying of starvation, war, poverty or disease.
Would you have been able to believe some of the oppertunities and technologies that exist today when you where whatever age I am?  |
I can remember being told in infant school that by the year 2000 we would be holidaying on the moon, eating pills instead of food, that we'd have flying cars, that we'd have hundreds of TV channels, that we'd have individual portable communication devices like Star Trek and that most people wouldn't have to work as robots would do it all for us etc.
A few predictions have come true, some, like flying cars, are coming a bit later than expected and some a lot later like trips to the moon and some haven't come true thus far like pills as an alternative to food (but many people use pills for recreational purposes instead of alcohol, cigarettes etc).
The robot thing now looks to be gradually coming true.
The whole ethos of the work ethic will have to change, how many of us were brought up to believe that we must work for a living and contribute towards society?
At the moment this Government is intent on making even the most severely disabled look for work:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/743...k-and-Benefits
Many people would still like to work, so if UIB was introduced there would be more scope for voluntary work eg doing the gardens of incapacitated people, reading to the blind etc or volunteering for charities who have had their funding cut. Hard pressed local authorities could reintroduce services that have had to be cut or stopped due to austerity eg tending to park vegetation.
As Damien said, there would also be more time to pursue hobbies and interests.
Attitudes like this will have to change towards the unemployed:
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
You mean, because they are lazy so and sos and refuse to go for job interviews? The jobs are there if people want them. Full time, part time, flexible zero hours contracts, whatever. If you don't want to work but want to appear hard done by, these people are running out of excuses.
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Maybe for those able to work there could be a conditionality upon UIB? If it was implemented today at £86 and the minimum wage was, say £10 per hour, they could be required to do a minimum of 9 hours per week?
UIB should also help to deal with the misplaced resentment of the unemployed as working people would be receiving the same payment as someone not in remunerative work and those not in paid employment would be working for their income.