Basic Income and the Video Game Myth
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5 min readJul 23, 2018
Basic Income — a regular payment of money for every resident citizen, regardless of their circumstances, sufficient to pay for essentials.
It sounds like a wonderful idea, but not everyone’s convinced. And one of the main objections people raise is the claim that if you pay everyone a Basic Income, millions upon millions of people will decide to give up work entirely and play video games all day…