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>Just as people say Guaranteed Basic Income will fail-- Let me ask 2 questions: 1: Is what we have now working, e.g. is there still homelessness, and poverty in
by mjolk 13y ago
>Just as people say Guaranteed Basic Income will fail-- Let me ask 2 questions: 1: Is what we have now working, e.g. is there still homelessness, and poverty in America? 2: If our system is already failed, how does trying something new that may fail, hurt anything?
I question your assumptions. Should homelessness and poverty be the main concerns for politicians? Why do you believe our system has failed to the point of "elect random people from the public."
>Why can't we change things, shake things up a bit, push the envelope?
"Push the envelope" is a meaningless expression. What exactly do you mean?
>Wasn't America's founding principles on shaking things up?
No, it wasn't.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> >Wasn't America's founding principles on shaking things up? > No, it wasn't. Yeah, this is part of the myth that comes from the misnamed American "Revolution". The revolt of the American colonies against Britain was largely the opposite of being about shaking these up -- the anger was largely over the arbitrary deprivation of rights the upper classes expected to have respected as British subjects. The founding principle was more about securing what were already viewed as traditional protections than about shaking anything up.