Alex Imas

Versus they weren't told anything.

Yeah.

And man, did they hate it.

I bet.

They hate... People need meaning and...

So much of like identity and motivation, you know, in economics, we really have this tendency to focus on money.

But I think so much of meaning and wellness is tied up in like what sort of identity you have around your job and the sort of thing that you're doing.

If you feel like, look, I'm actually providing a service by moving that dirt to my neighbor's yard.

You're paying me money for it.

Everything's good.

I feel like my job has some sort of meaning.

If you're telling me, look, I'm going to, you know, move this dirt and move it back and forth.

This is the problem that people have with UBI.

that if people get universal basic income and they're not working for it, the worry that psychologists and behavioral scientists have about this is that people will know so much of, in Western culture specifically, of people's identities tied up around their work.

When you remove that part of the identity, it can lead to a collapse where they use that UBI to just do drugs and sit around and be very, very depressed even though they have the material comfort that they otherwise have.

Yes.

Yes.

Through this sort of file that they're keeping.

Exactly.

So like if you mistreated an agent and.