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The article is drawing a contrast between the market vs the state funding things. Donations are part of the market from that perspective. They don't stem from t
by roenxi 4mo ago
The article is drawing a contrast between the market vs the state funding things. Donations are part of the market from that perspective. They don't stem from the state.
- andrewflnr 4mo agoYou didn't read far enough. > Three: teach the economy to do it on its own. This is the one I actually want. Instead of the state hand-picking which good rooms deserve a cheque, you change the rule underneath, so that the people who would run the rooms can simply afford to. He's talking here about giving people enough economic breathing room that they can afford to donate.
- roenxi 4mo agoYeah, and his premise is that the market won't do it naturally without central planning to overrule the pricing mechanism (in that section he's hypothesising that a UBI would help). That premise is wrong - the market is already perfectly capable of coming up with communal spaces. And who knows why he thinks a UBI will help, if people don't value something enough to pay for it and they get given an arbitrary sum of money they will probably continue to not pay for the thing. Teenagers can work, even I worked for money when I was a teenager and I'm pretty lazy by nature.
- andrewflnr 4mo agoYou: > his premise is that the market won't do it naturally The author: > Instead of the state hand-picking which good rooms deserve a cheque If donation-funded churches are a market mechanism, as you seem to insist on, the author is also advocating market mechanisms.