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0 pointsrmoriz3d ago0 comments

UBI/UBS requires a very solidaric community. But the current situation (in Germany) is not about finding any job but taking a low paid, hard working or even dangerous job (nursing service, shifter, even soldier, public sector).

UBI makes it even harder to find people for that kind of jobs. Not paying any social benefits and increasing the pressure on the unemployed to take these jobs is much more interesting for everyone that is not unemployed. Please don't judge me for writing this. It's the feeling I have, not my view.

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kuerbel3d ago

A lot, I'd say even most people in Germanys long term unemployment scheme which are not already working part time (Aufstocker) have severe mental and physical health problems. More pressure isn't going to help those people but it's the current Government's shtick.

I'd say UBI would make it easier to find people working in demanding jobs because you could to them part time, so they don't wear you down as much. It's much easier to work as a nurse for 20 hours a week.

WesolyKubeczek2d ago

> It's much easier to work as a nurse for 20 hours a week.

However, being a nurse is a skilled job that a Joe from street cannot do on a whim, and at the same time it has very shitty pay.

I’d say being a nurse competes in shittiness of the pay/work ratio with another indispensable job, a schoolteacher.

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