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It doesn't work, because "enough" here would have to be something like, maybe everyone lives in a small apartment in a city, is vegan, and doesn't travel much o

by throwaway22032 3y ago

It doesn't work, because "enough" here would have to be something like, maybe everyone lives in a small apartment in a city, is vegan, and doesn't travel much or at all. Ten mil is way higher than that. It's probably more like a 50k or lower income with no wealth. For me and for a lot of people I know, this would be a significant downgrade and I'd rather compete to maintain or improve my quality of life. I don't have ten mil, but if everyone lived like me, we would be buggered.

javajosh 3y ago
>It doesn't work You don't know that. It hasn't been tried, and I daresay you don't even understand what I'm proposing. One neoliberal capitalist way to implement the Enough system is to make agreement to it a condition of your employment, and also a condition of your investment. You agree to retire and divest as soon as you earn a certain amount. At work, you vacate the role and let someone else try it out. With your investments, you sell and let someone else be a stakeholder.
- megaman821 3y ago
  That sounds terrible. Instead of having surgeon with decades of experience they retire after 10 years because they have enough. Instead building bridges with experience engineers and construction workers, we can let some kid out of college do it.
  - javajosh 3y ago
    That's a strawman and you know it.
    - beanjuiceII 3y ago
      how is that a strawman?
      - javajosh 3y ago
        How many engineers or surgeons make it to $10M of wealth AT ALL, let alone in a period of time short enough to make expertise itself in short supply? The answer is approximately zero.
        beanjuiceII 3y ago
        i'm an engineer in a neighborhood mostly filled with lawyers and surgeons, i can tell you these people easily have 10M of wealth, and these are all people currently still in family building stages of life. Also adding..if this area lost these people as experienced surgeons there would definitely be issues!

javajosh 3y ago

>It doesn't work You don't know that. It hasn't been tried, and I daresay you don't even understand what I'm proposing. One neoliberal capitalist way to implement the Enough system is to make agreement to it a condition of your employment, and also a condition of your investment. You agree to retire and divest as soon as you earn a certain amount. At work, you vacate the role and let someone else try it out. With your investments, you sell and let someone else be a stakeholder.

megaman821 3y ago
That sounds terrible. Instead of having surgeon with decades of experience they retire after 10 years because they have enough. Instead building bridges with experience engineers and construction workers, we can let some kid out of college do it.
- javajosh 3y ago
  That's a strawman and you know it.
  - beanjuiceII 3y ago
    how is that a strawman?
    - javajosh 3y ago
      How many engineers or surgeons make it to $10M of wealth AT ALL, let alone in a period of time short enough to make expertise itself in short supply? The answer is approximately zero.
      - beanjuiceII 3y ago
        i'm an engineer in a neighborhood mostly filled with lawyers and surgeons, i can tell you these people easily have 10M of wealth, and these are all people currently still in family building stages of life. Also adding..if this area lost these people as experienced surgeons there would definitely be issues!