Quote Originally Posted by bu villain View Post
So you think people would be satisfied living without beer, a car, tv, internet, cell phones, eating at restaurants, or anything beyond the three items listed as long as they didn't have to work even part time at a low wage job?
At first no, but in 20 years, absolutely. Dependence is a drug and the more readily available it becomes, the more it expands. This is why use of social handout programs have exploded. If those safety nets werent in place, people would work a lot harder to find a way to support themselves.



BTW, your experiment has already been tried several times, most notably in the former USSR. It did not end well.