I Love Hearing Them Talk With Renewed Joy About Their Lives Outside Of Work And How Happy They Are To Go To Work To Make It Possible - Blog Posts

Almost every retired person i know, has some sort of job to fill their time and to help fund extracurriculars. My grandpa is working part time because he wants a fishing boat, my favorite bank teller runs a pet sitting business, my aunt runs a community garden.

My least favorite things about anti- UBI discourse is always the techbros whining that "nobody is going to work anymore! People will just watch Netflix all day!" and I have 2 responses:

1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That's kind of the fucking point!

2) People aren't going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it's right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won't suddenly stop because we aren't forced to sell our labor to provide corporation's profits.

I'm not surprised that what is traditionally women's work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.

Anyway. Join the IWW.