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Implement a Georgist tax regime[1], take the money production facility away from the banks (direct issuance by the goverment for infrastructure, profit share th
by carsongross 10y ago
Implement a Georgist tax regime[1], take the money production facility away from the banks (direct issuance by the goverment for infrastructure, profit share the results), implement Distributist[2] policies to spread capital ownership as broadly as possible, and implement a gently eugenic basic income regime. (Not happy about that last one, but it has to happen to make things sustainable.)
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism
- GavinMcG 10y agoI have no idea what a "gently eugenic" regime would be. Or, if it's what I'm imagining, why it would be necessary for sustainability. Mind elaborating?
- carsongross 10y agoAn example would be to make basic income only apply to citizens over 18, so having additional children would not increase payments to a family, and then making children a large tax break, encouraging people who can afford them to have children. I'm ambivalent about it, particularly since I'm catholic, but I'm afraid the alternative is idiocracy and, eventually, far more human suffering.
- mschuster91 10y ago> and implement a gently eugenic basic income regime You don't need eugenics to regulate fertility. Population and fertility is in freefall basically, except ultra-poor areas.
- carsongross 10y agoDon't let the emotional impact of the word "eugenic" cloud your thinking. Almost all social policies have effects on fertility and are therefore, either eugenic or dysgenic in practice. A basic income that isn't designed properly would be extremely dysgenic and, therefore, unsustainable. See my sibling comment about what a gently eugenic basic income regime might look like.