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Much as I like the general idea: What you're describing has been tried before, hasn't it? Sometimes successfully, sometimes less so, a successful example being
by BjoernKW 10y ago
Much as I like the general idea: What you're describing has been tried before, hasn't it?
Sometimes successfully, sometimes less so, a successful example being the kibbutz movement and the most obvious failure being large-scale communism. Even feudalism can in some way be considered as a manner of providing basic income.
The problem is: How do you accommodate everyone's personal gifts, passions and proclivities?
Not everyone's a farmer or a physician, so not everyone's of practical use for your proposed commune. This is likely to create envy and resentment.
- zanny 10y agoExcept that doesn't seem to be what he is proposing - you don't have a coop to assign labor, you have a coop to control wealth to provide livelihood. The membership does whatever it wants, the coop will, if necessary, pay people to farm its land or manufacture its textiles, but the cornerstone of UBI is that as automation advances the amount of human labor required for any of those constituent parts of livelihood will continue to approach zero, and when it does, you now have an apparatus of the means of production that provides for all your members needs.