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Financial_Donut_64 OP t1_j62s4qu wrote

Reply to comment by Hello_Hurricane in How life with UBI could look like by Financial_Donut_64

Thank you :)! It’s my favorite part of the text. I really hope that universities become this discussion hub of intellectual discourse again. Currently they are just so under pressure to educate the next workers.

That’s as far as I’m concerned how it used to be (at least for the upper class and not slaves) in the early beginnings of the great Greek philosophy age.

They discussed those fundamental questions of human existence and even exercised with each other lol

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Hello_Hurricane t1_j62sozh wrote

Perhaps we're on the cusp of the next great intellectual age! That or we're all about to be enslaved.

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Financial_Donut_64 OP t1_j62ui29 wrote

The search for meaning could very well lead to a new intellectual age. I just hope that we don’t collectively fall into a depression as society and if yes we will need sth (be it philosophy, science, religion, …) to guide us through that time imo.

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Hello_Hurricane t1_j62usaj wrote

I think, for a time, especially with any country that enacts UBI, a vast majority of the population will become enormously depressed as they try to find things in their life of actual meaning or value, instead of attributing those things to work. I imagine that will eventually pass, but I can see suicide rates skyrocketing during that time. I know far too many people whose only self-perceived value comes from the work they do. Hell, my own father thinks his purpose in life is to work and eventually die on the job. I hate to think what UBI would do to him.

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