“A common, casual assumption is that if you give a basic income to people, they will become indolent and do nothing. In reality, people enjoy doing work when that work is satisfying. They don't hate being productive, they hate their jobs! Improve working conditions and make work a pleasure rather than a burden, and there's no reason why people won't engage in it. Very few people want to do nothing. They want to find meaning and feel accomplished and useful. Rosy views of human nature may be naive, but so are views that presume the natural state of humankind is slothful and selfish.” JobsHumanityMoneyDemocracyHuman RightsIncomeSocialism Book:Why You Should Be a Socialist Source: Why You Should Be a Socialist
“Ironically, the [monopolistic] concentration of capital means that one of the great fears about socialism - that decisions about what to sell would be made by small, unelected groups of bureaucrats, rather than determined by competition - is increasingly coming true under capitalism.” MoneyDemocracyCapitalismSocial JusticeHuman RightsSocialismCapitalEconomic Justice Book:Why You Should Be a Socialist Source: Why You Should Be a Socialist