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>Wouldn’t the enormous wealth that our increasingly productive society is generating, which now flows into just a few pockets, be a fair source? This has never
by gozur88 9y ago
>Wouldn’t the enormous wealth that our increasingly productive society is generating, which now flows into just a few pockets, be a fair source?
This has never been done successfully in an economy not based on resource extraction without destroying the engine that produces that "enormous wealth".
The whole thing is both well intentioned and incredibly naive.
- frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago>This has never been done successfully in an economy not based on resource extraction without destroying the engine that produces that "enormous wealth". So it's a good idea as long as we constrain it to our natural resources?
- benji-york 9y agoUntil those natural resources are exhausted or otherwise no longer valuable.
- gozur88 9y agoWell, it's not a spectacularly bad idea under those conditions. But it's not like companies don't already pay for drilling, mining, and grazing rights on federal land. Right now the money doesn't go into a special fund, though, and in any case it's not much divided over 340 million people. Norway's sovereign wealth fund is significant because there just aren't that many Norwegians.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoYeah. Be very careful of the idea that it would be "fair" to take what flows into "other" pockets. It always turns out that there's not enough flowing into "other" pockets, and therefore that it becomes "fair" to take what's flowing into your pocket.