Just a quick perspective:

If The Revolution were to happen tomorrow, and we all got our basic universal income and neat pleather jumpsuits...

...and somebody were to ask me to volunteer to work 20 hours a week, for an open-source non-profit geographical software initiative, For The Good Of Society, doing essentially the same work I do now...

I'd say yes. In an instant. No question. People *like* doing work that has an actual purpose.

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@zebratron2084 fuck yeah. if I could be guaranteed it was For The Good Of Society and that my mental/physical health wouldn't be damaged by it, I could do just about any type of job, tbh. today I spent several hours cleaning seriously icky cages that had been inhabited by various kinds of birds, FOR NO PAY, because it needed doing and I can. :D

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