[rbrogan]

Would anyone, personally, take something like this as an opportunity to do open source work and/or research projects? Or do you feel like you want/need money as a motivator to be your most productive and a way to keep score in the game?

[manyoso]

Yes, I would. And frankly that is a feature not a bug! It would allow people to contribute to the economy in ways that are self-motivating and not for fear of starving. And well motivated people do better work and contribute more which has been empirically validated and also common sense.

[JDiculous]

Most definitely. I feel that there are much more important and interesting problems that I'd rather be tackling than my day to day work, but most of them pay significantly less (eg. policy issues, cancer, curing aging, poverty, etc). Not to mention I love art and creativity.

I don't care about money. To me, time is the most valuable thing that money buys (aside from food/shelter). I make money so that I can retire and have the freedom to work on what I want rather than what an employer or boss orders me to. Basic income would give me complete freedom of time, thus allowing me to retire right now and do 100% what I want to do.

[eli_gottlieb]

I definitely would, and would particularly use it as a way to spend a lot more time preparing myself to enter a PhD program.

[ebfe]

Money, without a doubt. I wouldn't do a day of work in my life if it didn't carry personal gain.