• aesopjah@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    that’s low key why universal basic income would be good. it’s somewhat important to have people like that who just want to preserve and teach history and they shouldn’t necessarily be forced to find an industrialized application for that in order to have a decent life.

    • Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com
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      7 months ago

      If you’re teaching history, that’s already provided for cuz you can paid for teaching. UBI would just enable the case of a person learning things without then teaching those things to others or doing anything of value with the knowledge.

    • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I don’t think UBI helps with this much. This might be controversial to hear, but UBI solves different problems related to fulfilling needs and doesn’t solve problems with incentives inherently. So if studying history is on par with doing no work at all, then a history major will only be able to afford the new ground floor of our society.

      What would probably be better is to fix our grant systems and provide destinations for studying history. So UBI allows anyone to study it but grants still encourage people to do so and gives them a destination to work towards.

      • John_McMurray@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        2000 year from now, they’ll still be studying empty tombs in Egypt. except the “grave robbers” that took everything were the archeologists of today, instead of the archaeologists of the 7th century.