Money for nothing, an empty life....Welcome to UBI

The risk and reward paradigm is nothing new. It is as old as nature itself. It is nature itself.

Why does your meal, your food, taste nicer when you have earned the money to buy it?

Why do you love your first car when you have saved up to buy it, rather than a HP purchased motor later on in life, - which is a much 'better' vehicle?

Why does something – anything, feel more of ,after you have spent the time and effort in procuring the means by which to purchase ?

Ask anyone that has gone fishing, or hunting about the taste of their catch. It is sublime.

The biological organisms we are today, has been forged from time and year after year, season after season, of tough survival.
There is a reasons these things feel so much better when we have acquired them ourselves. When we have put in the risk.

It is a deep rooted genetic program that ensures we continue doing these actions 'of work' - by making us enjoy the effort, especially if it is difficult.

Everything tastes sweeter...

This drive increases the chances of our genes continuing to the next generations. Acquiring through effort, is as natural an instinct as breathing.
It maximizes the probability that our genes are replicated.

The 'job', genetically, has been achieved.

Obviously modern living does not require us to grab a rifle and to go shoot the nearest lump of live venison, to survive .
This is illusory, however.

Someone somewhere, has pulled the trigger, grown the food. The food on our plates, in our burgers - has been hunted by you- with your wage packet.

( without the satisfaction gleaned from hunting.)

Losing that instinct to hunt for food, is to lose the instinct to survive.

Losing that instinct to work for your resources, is to lose the instinct to survive.

It is no coincidence that unemployment is a cause of depression, anxiety and a general poor quality of life.

The thwarting of the basic genetic drive is as detrimental to the quality of life as a starvation diet.

Everyone goes to work, risking their time, and in return is rewarded by a paycheck.

That is why spending earned money is a far more rewarding an experience, than spending unearned money.
Food tastes nicer, your car is something you love, your holidays are more rewarding.

Receiving 'money for nothing' makes everything have ... less value.

If you haven't put in your effort to acquire resources, then spending the the unearned resource is a pale imitation of the pleasures you feel - when compared to putting in effort...

... gastronomically speaking, it's the taste of a McDonald's compared to the taste of porter house steak.

One is function, one is a celebration.

If you have only ever known the taste of a mcdonalds as 'meat' ( bizarre concept, I know), then how can people understand the pleasures of a porterhouse?

When the instinct to acquire - to hunt - has been eroded by the teat of the welfare state and when the option for free money is a more attractive proposition than working 40 hours a week doing a really shitty job - it becomes very dangerous.

If the masses become happy just 'surviving' with scraps of a McDonald's kiddies meal - rather than enjoying the risk of the hunt for a porterhouse..

Some people have never even known this feeling. ... Have lost the instinct to strive.
It is very sad for them.

The pleasures obtained from working, from sweating - to make your money - will be a ghost of a memory in a very dystopian future.

And then the sociopaths, and the tyrants, will have a docile feeble population to rule over.

Human zombies, sent to a slaughter house called Universal Basic Income...