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Isn’t quite quitting just refusing to go above and beyond? Simply working the required hours and going home? Pretty sure that’s what we should have been doing all along.

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It's like being in a union job but without the union benefits to the worker. But you do with the minimum you can get away with because although the prospects for a bad job market are high, there are currently few takers for open positions, so your employer will stick with you because your preplacement will likely be as unmotivated.

I think this bodes ill for Basic Income --it looks like it totally demotivates people and people are more than willing to "just get by" and then not pursue "their true intellectual pursuits".

I honestly dont see how this relates to basic income. Of course people dont want to work more than the bare minimum, work sucks for 95 percent of the population.

Doing the bare minimum means we don't advance. We don't improve. progress is stopped and maybe we regress.

That would be true if work actually mattered for the majority of the population. Most work is just there to make someone else richer, not progress humanity in anyway.

> you do with the minimum you can get away with

What an odd way to say "refusing to do work you're not being compensated to do".

Not necessarily, some very well paid people do the bare minimum, not just entry level workers, as you imply.

I wasn't intending to imply just entry level workers (who I didn't mention). I was talking about all workers, regardless of pay rate.

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