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This looks amazingly like the welfare state that so many hate no?

• pron 14y ago
  Far more than that -- I'm talking about welfare one can quite comfortably live on. Let's make work a lifestyle choice. If technology allows for that to happen, perhaps even opponents of the welfare state, who are mostly found in the US, will come around. I mean, maybe even they will realize that it makes sense even for the richest person to be only so many times richer than the common folk.
  • tankenmate 14y ago
    I think my statement wasn't as nuanced as it could have been; I am in total support of what you are suggesting. The problem is funding it, usually by dipping further into "capital" i.e. a wealth tax which the wealthy are probably reticent to pay; even though it would probably be in their best interest.
  • rdl 14y ago
    We already basically do this by paying people to provide services (either directly through government, or indirectly) which are essentially unnecessary for production. Or by over-staffing government agencies above what is needed to actually do the work. This is super common in the middle east. You can make $200-400k/yr doing a make-work bureaucratic job, provided you're a local.