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The Basic Income is the terminal phase of a democracy, wherein people are rewarded simply for existing, extracting their subsistence from the productive forces
by clarkmoody 11y ago
The Basic Income is the terminal phase of a democracy, wherein people are rewarded simply for existing, extracting their subsistence from the productive forces in the economy. It is the final vote-buying mechanism of the political elite to create a permanent dependent underclass.
Thanks to our democratically-installed public school system, liberty is a topic which cannot be discussed in polite company. Don't be discouraged when you get down-voted by the Hacker News progressive/socialist hive mind.
- yanilkr 11y agoHacker news crowd are usually wealthy programmers who got very lucky in the nature's randomness. You have to be definitely smart to be a good programmer and the comments are usually very optimistic and ideal world scenarios. The programmers who graduate to be good managers and fail couple of businesses really care about liberty. The best leaders I ever worked with cared so much about giving their productive people more liberty and they think like programmers. So there is hope after all ;-).
- sievebrain 11y agoYour argument could be made about any form of welfare. "Liberty is not a topic that can be discussed in polite company" seems more likely to be an issue with your definition of liberty rather than an issue with the polite company.
- aninhumer 11y ago>wherein people are rewarded simply for existing, extracting their subsistence from the productive forces in the economy. And when those forces are machines, why shouldn't we do exactly this? >liberty is a topic which cannot be discussed in polite company. I have no problem talking about liberty, only with people who seem to think that word means "property rights" and little else.