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Is it the future. We already have zero-hour contracts.

The cynic in me just sees larges swathes of white-collar work increasingly falling under zero-hour type capitalistic revenue models, to spin a euphemism.

I don't really buy the idyllic spend half you time raising chickens and the other half coding picture, at least not for 95% of people.

UBI, and to pay "essential workers" more than a "living" wage would be a good start.

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I literally just grabbed 60 eggs from my chicken coop, came back to my computer and saw this hit the front page :D. Certainly agree it's not going to work for most people and it's a privileged position, but trends usually start from a small subset of the population and spread. I think the perception of working in IT is a great example of this... think of the movie Office Space, and then how companies like Google completely changed how we think about tech company culture in the early 2000s. Certainly Google was a well-funded golden startup, but eventually this ethos spread to much of tech.

But as soon as you create UBI, you create new inflation, which causes us to increase the UBI. I don't understand the benefit of telling people that don't want to work that they don't have to. Work fights inflation, free flowing money in society creates it.

Of course this will be downvoted because something that has worked for thousands of years is obviously wrong.

The current system isn't even 100 years old. In 1920 a large percentage of people were farmers and women generally didn't have jobs. Things can and do change.

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