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The alternative to UBI for you is that you either spend the rest of your life in a castle or your head ends up on a spike. It isn't a coincidence that Thomas P
by rjsw 9y ago
The alternative to UBI for you is that you either spend the rest of your life in a castle or your head ends up on a spike.
It isn't a coincidence that Thomas Piketty is a Parisian, you can still see plenty of signs of the Revolution on buildings around the city.
- dingo_bat 9y agoI don't see any support for your assertion. Why wouldn't we continue the status quo for a 1000 years? There certainly have been long periods in history where royalty has lived in riches and the majority have worked their ass off to support them. Only at the end do the royals get killed. But right now we're just starting! I expect this to last much longer too this time, since we have more automation now.
- rjsw 9y agoWe are not preserving the status quo right now, the rich are getting richer. There is also the point that 1000 years ago the poor didn't know that they could kill kings, there are more examples of how to do it now.
- dingo_bat 9y ago> We are not preserving the status quo right now, the rich are getting richer. The status quo is that some people are rich and some are poor. To maintain it means the same people (more-or-less) stay rich and the same people stay poor. > There is also the point that 1000 years ago the poor didn't know that they could kill kings What? People did not know about death?