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Give me $1000 a month and I'd be able to retire. I wouldn't be rich but with savings and so on I'd be able to manage. So it would cost perhaps $30000 more than that in lost income taxes too as well as lost productivity. I imagine very many people would do this.

The whole whole idea is stupid.

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I would too. I'd do so immediately. And what would I do with all that leisure time? I'd teach the local children robotics with Arduinos and RasPis, just like I do now with every scrap of my meager free-time only then I'd get to do it every day.

Imagine how impoverished the world would become if thousands like me took to a life of such mooching!

And someone younger than you without savings would step in to fill your role. Youth unemployment in first world countries is very high right now.

The more of you who take this deal, the better I and everyone else is. You're so uninvested in what you do for a living you'd stop for $1K/mo? Good riddance. You're a drag on anyone who's actually trying to get shit done. The rest of us will be more productive, and happier, not fucking with you. We'll happily pay higher taxes to get you out of our way.

I imagine the idea is great and most people are not like you. But that is just my imagination. On the other hand, the article presents very good arguments for the system and why would it work.

So you want it or you don't?

Also if you make 1000 a month now, you probably dont pay much taxes.

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