<story><title>Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-begins-universal-basic-income-trial-three-years-2020-8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OneGuy123</author><text>Based on how most jobs will get automated some form of an UBI will be required sooner or later.&lt;p&gt;Now the only question is: how to you phase in UBI while still rewarding extra productive people to keep creating&amp;#x2F;innovating?&lt;p&gt;Some will say &amp;quot;those people will innovate out of love&amp;quot;. This is not always the case, many people are good at what they do and create many awesome things but given the chance they would rather do something less productive because on some level they don&amp;#x27;t like what they do that much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thisisbrians</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t this like saying that the invention of agriculture will mean society has to start feeding hunter gatherers for free? That&amp;#x27;s not how it went. People find new ways to create value all the time, and yet every time we invent anything new people keep saying &amp;quot;all the jobs are going away.&amp;quot; It has yet to happen in spite of the agricultural, industrial, and now tech revolutions.</text></comment>
<story><title>Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-begins-universal-basic-income-trial-three-years-2020-8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OneGuy123</author><text>Based on how most jobs will get automated some form of an UBI will be required sooner or later.&lt;p&gt;Now the only question is: how to you phase in UBI while still rewarding extra productive people to keep creating&amp;#x2F;innovating?&lt;p&gt;Some will say &amp;quot;those people will innovate out of love&amp;quot;. This is not always the case, many people are good at what they do and create many awesome things but given the chance they would rather do something less productive because on some level they don&amp;#x27;t like what they do that much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pizza234</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  &amp;gt; Based on how most jobs will get automated some form of an UBI will be required sooner or later.
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&amp;quot;Most jobs will get automated&amp;quot; is actually very questionable. It&amp;#x27;s called &amp;quot;Lump of labour fallacy&amp;quot;, although (I suppose) either not everybody subscribes to it, or it&amp;#x27;s something that tends to go unnoticed.</text></comment>