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You are comparing apples and oranges. There is huge disparity between the cost proportion of preparing fresh hot meal and the meal's ingredients and between dis

• VLM 12y ago
  How about the cost of national defense? That's about the same order of magnitude of expense per citizen per year, and it turns out to be infinitely cheaper to defend an entire nation, in whole, "for free", than to defend an audited listed curated defined collection of specific acres of land that are more deserving of protection than other acres of land that pay for their own private security forces. I can just imagine an "army" of social workers descending on my city to evaluate the financial records and security posture of every land parcel, and then offer customized packages of military defense to those having issues with the ability to pay. So the building I work in has an unarmed part time security guard but the company has plenty of money, whereas the office down the road without any money might get 24x7 M1A1 tank patrol because they qualify for free military defense services due to poverty. Imagine how many accountants and social workers we could employ if we treated all areas of society this way. Do these people "deserve" free EPA service to protect their river, or do they only "deserve" it if poor people swim there often enough? We could spend millions and employ dozens. The TLDR of the whole discussion is we've designed fabulously complicated and baroque systems to save pennies while being pound foolish.
  • dandare 12y ago
    Then we are talking about completely different things, the basic income me (and Wikipedia) talk about has nothing to d with abolition of government.