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Public universal health, transport, education, basic housing (bed and desk, with shared showers and toilets) so that nobody is homeless, I can get behind. I'd e
by snvzz 4y ago
Public universal health, transport, education, basic housing (bed and desk, with shared showers and toilets) so that nobody is homeless, I can get behind. I'd even add a small, fanless computer running open source software and with internet access.
Increasing taxes on a ladder, I can understand. High taxes (50%) past a certain point, I can understand.
Even universal income.
>For starters, a wealth and income threshold is needed. No individual human needs hundreds of millions of dollars let alone cash, and none of them directly earned or deserve that much. Everything past the threshold can be redistributed.
Absolutely not. Any country that does this would have me (and most people who actually value hard work) leaving.
The idea should be to provide the basics (as above) to everybody, and not more.
So that they can live a basic life, acquire skills, and potentially get an actual job and the benefits that come with it.
- PrimeMcFly 4y ago"Any country that does this" would eventually be all countries.
- snvzz 4y agoHow would that even work, without suppressing democracy?
- PrimeMcFly 4y agoEventually all or most governments would adopt this new system if it worked, just as most governments today have implemented some form of democracy and free market. Nothing really to do with democracy, honestly, although on that note democracy is not a great system and needs to be replaced with something better.
- snvzz 4y ago>with something better. Like plutocracy?
- PrimeMcFly 4y agoNo, something new.