I disagree. Most people want to do plenty of things, but can't because they have to grind away at a pointless job to survive. Artists and musicians are one example. Also tons of people would rather pursue hobbies and develop them into crafts and trades but they can't because there is no way to survive doing that, and working a job doesn't leave time to ever take it that far. Likewise tons of people would rather be developing tech skills, coding, researching, and innovating, but get stuck in dead end jobs, or otherwise can't find the time or money to get there.

If it wasn't for the pandemic, and having months of time and some CERB to cover the bills, I might never have managed to put enough time and effort into woodworking to turn it into a job now. At the very least it would have taken many more years. I worked my ass off during my extra time off, and I am not special or unique in any way.

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People want to do the things that interest them, that they can engage with, that give them fulfillment, which matter. Capitalism presents significant barriers to that most of the time.

They might not work as many hours a day or week given the chance to take time for their families, for self care, and for living, but that just speaks to how much capitalism drives people to work like dogs to the detriment of everything else in their life. It doesn't mean people are being lazy for wanting to have a healthy work life balance.

You seem to be labouring under a delusion. That system has never been tried. There has yet to be an actual communist nation on Earth. The USSR and China failed their revolutions and were co-opted into brutal authoritarian state capitalism, and then exported that corrupt system under false label of communism and socialism.

Capitalism doesn't reward the motivated, it rewards those who are already wealthy. The rest of us mostly get held down and often punished despite working our asses off. Most of those so-called lazy are actually disabled or otherwise infirm, and suffer immensely for it under capitalism. There is nothing fair about how capitalism works. It is a system of massive inequality built on exploitation and generational wealth. It is the height of delusion to claim the rich were rewarded for hard work and everyone else is being penalized for being lazy.

This is a very bizarre and unrealistic idea. UBI won't lead to people destroying their lives, it will enable countless people to fix their lives and thrive.
Most jobs don't even do a background check here in Canada, and society hasn't crumbled yet. We're doing just fine. Jobs don't keep us safe, they just keep us too busy to do what actually matters.

Most social safety nets are barely functional, assuming you even live somewhere that has them. Often they have terrible barriers to entry, and don't really provide enough to support to actually survive on. Disabled people suffer immensely because of this. You have a very naive and uninformed view of social safety nets. I am guessing you have never been poor or even talked to a poor person before.

If you have the poor fortune to be American, its especially bad because in addition to poor social safety nets you have no public healthcare.

A lot of the major social problems in the world would be solved by UBI. It would enable a lot of people to do the remaining work to fix the rest without having to worry about how they will survive, or spending all their time grinding away at pointless jobs instead of working at what really matters.

Corona stimulus didn't drive inflation. Corporate greed did. Those small supplements to replace the income people no longer had isn't "flooding the economy" it was barely a fraction of what normally goes into the economy.

Here's the thing, when more people can see the doctor or buy food, that creates incentives to become a doctor, or to increase food production. Not only that, UBI would make it a hell of a lot easier for students to afford to live and go to school to become doctors and the like.

Sounds like a truly awful idea. Just look at how harmful private healthcare is. Private UBI (a massive contradiction in terms) would be just as bad or worse.

No corporation would ever do that. Their only mandate is to increase profits. Many cut necessary jobs from the payroll to cut corners and reduce spending as it is, why would they ever pay anyone other than a CEO to do nothing? It doesn't make the slightest bit of sense.

This isn't a solution, no part of it is remotely feasible or possible.

Our brains are constantly in overdrive trying to scrape up the dopamine and noroepinephrine which we can't produce or regulate like normal brains. So we need a lot of extra stimulation. That can mean trying to do a bunch of things all at once, or watching a show while playing a video game and talking to someone, using a fidget toy while engaged in other things, etc.

It can also mean taking hours to fall asleep because your brain can't stop. It can mean being super distracted because whatever you're doing isn't stimulating enough (with adhd most things aren't because our brain lacks the necessary chemicals to generate that feedback) so your brain keeps going on a little adventure. When we do find something that interests us enough and provides that extra stimulation, novelty, etc we need to get those chemicals, we can become hyperfocused and obsessed. My mom thought I was deaf and got my hearing tested when I was 6 or 7 because I'd just be gone when I was in that mode. Wouldn't hear a word she said. It's common for us to go through hobbies constantly because we get obsessed for a short period, then the novelty wears off, and we can't get interested again, leading to one form of ADHD tax where we waste money on tons of supplies and tools, then a month later forget about them and never touch them again.

It also causes issues with working memory and short term memory, impulse control and executive function (either you can't stop yourself or no matter how hard you try you can't make yourself do something). ADHD can be debilitating. I was a disaster before I got help.

I got diagnosed at 32. I didn't ever consider it, because I didn't know enough about it, until a friend who had a degree in early childhood education recognized it and suggested I look into it. Once I read more into it it made sense, and especially once i went over all my old school records and my symptom history with the specialist. Getting diagnosis, therapy, and meds completely turned my life around.

It's worth at least looking into if you think you might have it.

Unfortunately they don't help with adhd. Our brains are actually formed differently from normal brains and have some specific chemical deficits which shrooms can't supplement.

I too have a squirrel for a brain and this was my first thought as well. Sign me the fuck up for some brain lasers.

my household just watched it for the first time last night. Nobody knew anything about it beside some vague idea that it had vampires. We were blown away. What a wild ride that movie is.