drpossum
9 months ago
I'll not be snarky and say with some certainty that mathematicians teaching mathematics is important to the field of mathematics.
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9 months ago
I'll not be snarky and say with some certainty that mathematicians teaching mathematics is important to the field of mathematics.
9 months ago
Maybe some sort of new enrollment/payment system, like the religious practice of giving to your church a % of your income... The same could be done in a UBI society.
Because the amount of UBI in dollars received will change over time, expressing it as a percent will work. Let's call it UBIC or UBI-Cent for 1/100 of your UBI. Maybe a fully pledged 100/100 UBI would be UBID or UBI-Dollar.
Let's say you have a platform for teaching and learning, and students subscribe to their teachers and peers by literally pledging their UBIC to them.
Within this system, students have a means to live and study using their UBI, and teachers the same. Imagine liking the work your friend is doing, so you pledge them 1 UBIC. Or finding a teacher with a good price to match your situation.
I feel like there is room for entirely new systems of teaching/learning in a society where everyone has their minimum financial requirements fulfilled and is not going to starve.
9 months ago
Sure, at the expense of the next generation of mathematicians who may not have anyone to teach them.
9 months ago
Ubi is a non realistic utopia to begin with (offsetting the temperature scale doesn’t make anyone any warmer).
But even if not - no.
The best scientific breakthroughs were always made because of some scarcity and urgent necessity. Check Turing, history of Xerox lab etc etc.
Laziness and easy life is a bad motivator. Whether you like it or not.
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I mean, if they were unemployed, they wouldn't be mathematicians anymore