Ray Dalio says the global economy is under threat
&gt;He sees “transferring money to people who are unproductive” [universal basic income, UBI] as less optimal than finding a way for them to be productive.<p>Why can&#x27;t we let the individual find a way to make themselves productive? And, why do they <i>need</i> to be productive? Some of my best times in life are watching and playing games with my friends. Socializing. Loving people.<p>I, and most people I know, can look around and see things that need to be done. If our lives aren&#x27;t so focused on paying the bills all the time, we can relax a bit and be creative.<p>I remember I used to get <i>great</i> school lunches. I knew the cafeteria staff by name and they knew me because I went back for seconds and thirds and fourths... skinny as a bean pole. Lunches were made fresh every day. The staff were there at 6am cooking for the kids. Fresh bread. I used to love watching that dough bounce around in the industrial mixer. It was bigger than I was.<p>A decade after I was out of school, I saw one of the ladies and asked how the school lunches were. She said they don&#x27;t get to make them anymore. The menus are decided in Washington DC now and they have very little control over what is cooked or eaten. Kids don&#x27;t come back for seconds and thirds and fourths anymore.<p>The federal government took local control away from the schools and homogenized everything and basically ruined it from what I remember.<p>Why do we think the federal government knows better how to manage our day to day lives than we do ourselves? Get out of our kitchens and homes.<p>The government doesn&#x27;t need to find a way for me to be productive. People who need to be productive to keep their sanity will find a way. They&#x27;ll clean their bedrooms, volunteer in their communities. They won&#x27;t be judged by what their job is, but rather, what they do for themselves and the people around them.<p>The need to grind out a day at the office or the shipyard or in the truck hauling cargo saps a person&#x27;s freewill.<p>We need more freewill in the world.