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Currently that police officer is motivated by money. That money comes from taxes collected by siphoning off a bit of value every time value changes hands. How d

by subway 10y ago

Currently that police officer is motivated by money. That money comes from taxes collected by siphoning off a bit of value every time value changes hands. How do you continue motivating that police officer? Or the engineers/technicians operating the free-electricity boxes?

VLM 10y ago
Exactly my point. How do you pay for social workers in a poor city, how do you pay for the welfare state now? Surely you can't expect a social worker to carry around a cash register, their clients don't have money after all. I'm not sure how the back end will roll out but I know for sure the front end will roll out as a cultural shift in how we view most of the economic transactions we perform today. We can't slip "universal welfare" or "socialized medicine" past politics today, the concept of basic income is unacceptable to too many. Because we need it anyway it'll be rolled out as the death of the shopkeeper transaction economy. I'm sure someone pays the snowplow driver, somehow. I don't wave $20 bills in his face before he plows the street in front of my house, nor does he threaten to kneecap me if I don't pay up after he plows. He doesn't send me a bill either. And god forbid in red blooded America we have "socialized plowing" or "basic plowing" or "universal road care". None the less somewhere in the back there is a massive shell game going on with prop tax revenues and budget and somehow that plow gets filled with diesel and 99.99% of the population pays it no attention while simultaneously obtaining completely communist street snow plowing services based solely on need. Just make sure to never point out in polite company that we have "socialized plowing" or a "universal basic snowplow". A lot of people talk about end user UI which is not going to happen in the USA. 100% change we will have socialized medicine and the only thing 100% certain about the scheme is we will not call it socialized medicine. It'll be like "medicine as a service" or "public utility medical services" or "One of many benefits of living in this fine city much like the free public parks"

by subway 10y ago

VLM 10y ago

Exactly my point. How do you pay for social workers in a poor city, how do you pay for the welfare state now? Surely you can't expect a social worker to carry around a cash register, their clients don't have money after all. I'm not sure how the back end will roll out but I know for sure the front end will roll out as a cultural shift in how we view most of the economic transactions we perform today. We can't slip "universal welfare" or "socialized medicine" past politics today, the concept of basic income is unacceptable to too many. Because we need it anyway it'll be rolled out as the death of the shopkeeper transaction economy. I'm sure someone pays the snowplow driver, somehow. I don't wave $20 bills in his face before he plows the street in front of my house, nor does he threaten to kneecap me if I don't pay up after he plows. He doesn't send me a bill either. And god forbid in red blooded America we have "socialized plowing" or "basic plowing" or "universal road care". None the less somewhere in the back there is a massive shell game going on with prop tax revenues and budget and somehow that plow gets filled with diesel and 99.99% of the population pays it no attention while simultaneously obtaining completely communist street snow plowing services based solely on need. Just make sure to never point out in polite company that we have "socialized plowing" or a "universal basic snowplow". A lot of people talk about end user UI which is not going to happen in the USA. 100% change we will have socialized medicine and the only thing 100% certain about the scheme is we will not call it socialized medicine. It'll be like "medicine as a service" or "public utility medical services" or "One of many benefits of living in this fine city much like the free public parks"