I hope so.<p>I try to live in that way, and I try to encourage those around me to live in that way (refusing imbalanced employment conditions). I think if enough people did, we could start to help each other, rather than relying on capital and private property so much.<p>Basic income is one sort of stepping stone towards that. Ultimately I think the ideal is people actually having real choices, not the huge bias we have towards salaried employment at the moment.<p>If life were an MMO, then salaried employment would be the cookie cutter build, hourly work would be the odd hybrid, and otherwise you&#x27;ve decided to not bother with your talent tree, and you&#x27;re just gimping yourself. Can we tweak the rules of the game a bit, or are they just emergent?