Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
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Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
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It's "communism 2.0" if you've never read Marxist/communist texts and take the most superficial, lazy view of what people think communism is.
And all of this defiantly ignores the enormous impacts of globalization and automation on the "getting better" metric.
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#4Keynesianism 2.0
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Here’s a metric:
Total number of slaves.
Here’s another: the suicide rate for Americans aged 15 to 24 years old
Or: Lung cancer incidence in India.
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It's "communism 2.0" if you've never read Marxist/communist texts and take the most superficial, lazy view of what people think communism is. And all of this defiantly ignores the enormous impacts of globalization and automation on the "getting better" metric.
I read three volumes of Das Kapital if that counts?
Random side note: Here is a snippet from a Lincoln speech -> https://pastebin.com/quzZqbiK
Re: Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
#7In the event we did go socialist, UBI would be a much more effective way to allocate goods and services than a centrally managed economy. Let people determine what they need most, and use 'credits' to get it -- save the paperwork for less ordinary needs / circumstances.
That said, I prefer capitalism.
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#8No, a land value tax is Capitalism 2.0 - deriving tax revenues from people who don't work instead of people who do work.
Re: Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
#9In the event we did go socialist, UBI would be a much more effective way to allocate goods and services than a centrally managed economy. Let people determine what they need most, and use 'credits' to get it -- save the paperwork for less ordinary needs / circumstances. That said, I prefer capitalism.
What tortured definition of 'socialist' includes a privately owned and operated market economy?
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It's "communism 2.0" if you've never read Marxist/communist texts and take the most superficial, lazy view of what people think communism is. And all of this defiantly ignores the enormous impacts of globalization and automation on the "getting better" metric.
The UBI is also basically the welfare system most countries have without the expense and pain of trying to find the "cheaters" (See Australia's RoboDebt).
Its still capitalism and you still benefit from seeking a higher paying job but once most jobs have been automated it lets people easily train for better jobs without having to constantly report back to some defective government department and randomly getting their payments cut off.