You make two very different points here, and I think the point about marriage might have better been its own post.
That said, I’m in violent agreement that entrepreneurial types tend to overestimate the extent to which other people are enterpreneurial. Or assume that non-entrepreneurs are just stupid or conformist. Being an entrepreneur requires a very high tolerance for risk and unpredictability, and not everyone has that. Personally I’m very happy knowing exactly what my next paycheck will be and knowing it is very unlikely I will lose my job. I take the limited downside risk, even though it does mean my upside is limited, e.g., I am unlikely ever to be a billionaire.
There is a possibility that SOME people who are currently held back by poverty might become entrepreneurships if given an extra $1000/month. That’s not convincing as the sole argument for UBI, but then I’ve never seen that framed as the sole argument for UBI.
You make two very different points here, and I think the point about marriage might have better been its own post.
That said, I’m in violent agreement that entrepreneurial types tend to overestimate the extent to which other people are enterpreneurial. Or assume that non-entrepreneurs are just stupid or conformist. Being an entrepreneur requires a very high tolerance for risk and unpredictability, and not everyone has that. Personally I’m very happy knowing exactly what my next paycheck will be and knowing it is very unlikely I will lose my job. I take the limited downside risk, even though it does mean my upside is limited, e.g., I am unlikely ever to be a billionaire.
There is a possibility that SOME people who are currently held back by poverty might become entrepreneurships if given an extra $1000/month. That’s not convincing as the sole argument for UBI, but then I’ve never seen that framed as the sole argument for UBI.