{"id":1594,"date":"2025-07-10T01:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T01:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2025-07-10T01:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T01:37:16","slug":"1594","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1594","title":{"rendered":"UBI and the value of work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UBI doesn&#39;t mean &quot;no work&quot;.\u00a0 It means divorcing work from remuneration.\u00a0 There&#39;s still plenty of good work, but no one wants to pay you for it, so you get paid independently of your work. For example, you write songs.\u00a0 You build a house for yourself.\u00a0 You learn to sail, and take people sailing.\u00a0 You raise a kid.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You don&#39;t expect to get paid for any of it, but you do the work because work is meaningful and life affirming.\u00a0 Remuneration, the money you need to live, doesn&#39;t depend on renting your labor out, which when you think about it is a pretty modern idea.\u00a0 Back in the day we had patronage, and inheritance, and allowances (and slavery!) and all sorts of mechanisms that didn&#39;t directly tie labor to money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UBI doesn&#39;t mean &quot;no work&quot;.\u00a0 It means divorcing work from remuneration.\u00a0 There&#39;s still plenty of good work, but no one wants to pay you for it, so you get paid independently of your work. For example, you write songs.\u00a0 You build a house for yourself.\u00a0 You learn to sail, and take people sailing.\u00a0 You raise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}