Thread by @emshort

I think a lot about what good citizens we could be in a world with UBI, how much time we'd have to participate in politics. What schools would be like if more adults had time to spend with the young. What scholarship would be like if more people had time to be mature learners

https://twitter.com/madlori/status/1153729750738833414

all the best stuff I've done ("best" = "demonstrably useful to others," "made someone's life better," "was IMO good art") was motivated by something other than money, even if I happened also to be compensated for it.

and I think I'm not at all unusual in that regard

also, we currently need a lot of brainpower focused on how to save ourselves. get our collective decision-making systems to reflect the best of our values, unpack supremacy and avoid making the planet fully uninhabitable

there's a *lot* of citizening needed right now

finally: if human life ended, the value of our having existed would consist of the joy we experienced and the connections we formed to other beings.

so I am fully okay if UBI supports more lazing on the porch drinking lemonade with grandma or whatever your version of that is.