How much cash would it take to quit your job? With Pilita Clark and Mouhcine Guettabi

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  I love my job, I really do.

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  Particularly the FT canteen where you can buy kombucha and mint chocolate cornettos.

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  But recently I found myself wondering what it would take to quit.

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  How much money would I need to walk away from the world of work and spend my days playing the guitar,

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  learning to draw?

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  How generous would a universal basic income have to be for me to pack it all in?

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  Probably quite a lot, but my day job is economics and we can do a bit better than that.

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  This week we are going to ask, how much money would it take to quit your job?

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  This is the Economics show with Samaya Keynes.

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  Later, I'll speak to Mussin Ghatabi of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and.

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  But first, I am joined here in London by my wonderful colleague, Paulita Clarke.

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  Paulita, hello.

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  Hello, Ta'mea.

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  Have you thought about how much money it would take you to quit your job?

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  Not exactly,

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  but I have thought about how much money I want to have when the time comes

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  that I do quit my job for whatever reason.

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  And I have to say, I really have never been able to settle on a number.

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  It's quite difficult, actually.

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  So having gone through that process,

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