RE: Steem Connects People: A Reflection / Dissection of Whatever Happened During Steemfest
The Basic Income does not incentivize laziness. What incentivizes laziness are repetitive and boring jobs. Getting stuck in doing something your don't enjoy for simple survival creates all sorts of psychological issues (including laziness).
When people's basic human needs are meet (shelter, food, healthcare, social acceptance etc) through basic income, then they can truly release their creative potential (art, music, workout, volunteering etc).
If not having a job gives no incentive to do anything then why so hundreds of millions of people are currently volunteering trying to help improve our society and the world? - Obviously, we do it, because it is rewarding and gives us pleasure to improve our society.
In the social system built upon basic income the true incentive is ability to contribute through volunteering to the improvement of the system which really cares us about all of us.
More and more jobs are becoming replaced by automation. That includes service sector. Because there are less and less job, the concept of basic income is inevitable solution and next step in social evolution.
Great thoughts - it's definitely gonna come in time, and it will happen via blockchain implementation. Thinking about it, govs being siloed into different countries are definitely gonna use private blockchains for their own edits, etc if such a thing happen. For public blockchains to take over, maybe the concept of nations has to end. But wow, I wonder if that'll happen :) interesting times.
Yes, we are living in very interesting times :-D