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It's not really a matter of /wanting/ to work, it's structural disconnection from labor opportunities. As for why a basic income makes sense in an otherwise free-er market, there's plenty of both pragmatic and normative arguments floating around hacker news and the internet.



> As for why a basic income makes sense

Whether it makes sense for you or not, the discussion around this basic income nonsense regularly neglects the fact that in order for you to get money for not working, it has to be forcibly taken from somebody who actually did work and refuses to voluntarily share with people who dont work. Forced sharing (aka communism) is outright theft, and working people will fight you to stop you from taking the products of their labor.

> it's structural disconnection from labor opportunities.

Being "structurally disconnected" doesnt entitle you to forcibly take stuff from people who are not structurally disconnected. You can of course try, but then you got a war and people will fight you until you stop trying to take their stuff.




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