On: A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing

[irrational]

I make more than $100,000 a year, but I'd gladly quit if I had a basic income that let me lay around at home all day and read library books.

[scld → irrational]

And you would be replaced by someone who likes to travel to tropical beaches to sit and read books all day :)

[aminok → scld]

It would reduce the supply of highly skill labour, which would reduce the amount of goods/services produced, and as a consequence, the amount of wealth the world gets to consume. You're making the 'lump of labour fallacy' in assuming that someone will just take his stop with no loss.