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it’s my own view that even if people choose to watch an “insane amount of Netflix,” that’s no reason not to give them a basic income. (This magazine has published a long defense of laziness, and in Echoland I quote from Paul Lafargue’s 1883 The Right to be Lazy.) I think it would be insane to make people do work that could be automated just because you don’t believe they are choosing the correct forms of leisure and would prefer they go on hikes rather than watching movies. But I also don’t agree that there is some inherent human impulse to “not really do anything.”