Re: Get rid of crap jobs?

In such an economy, jobs that are most essential but were otherwise unpleasant would command a higher salary, which some might feel is more just than the present system in which the most vital work is poorly paid compared to people in essentially useless occupations, such as advertising executives and financial speculators and suchlike. You assume that no one would be a farmer if they could live on the barest minimum, despite farming yielding a substantially higher income. If UBI were set at too high a level, then there would be insufficient goods and services produced to sustain UBI at that level. Philippe Van Parijs suggests that UBI should be set at the highest level that is economically sustainable over the longer term.