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by tokenizer 13y ago
> I'd love your opinion on the merits of deporting unemployed Americans with $0 in savings to Liberia. Don't import them and provide them with a basic income? I was just saying that while we'd actually have to review some
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by tokenizer 13y ago
> At what % do we draw the line on taxing the wealthy? 35% 40% 50%? These numbers would be outraging to any other section of the populace. I'd prefer if we didn't at all TBH, but something that would pass would most likely only
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Simple solution, have X amount of savings, or a job lined up. I'd love your opinion on the merits of anyone else being allowed into a country without X amount of savings, or a job lined up.
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by tokenizer 13y ago
> Where you draw that line is a sliding scale of course I disagree. As a libertarian-socialist, I think we can take care of ourselves while pursuing freedom in regards to economics. In our current system, we judge people based on their e
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by tokenizer 13y ago
A libertarian could be a minarchist, and anarchist, or simply someone who looks at our current governance architecture (state control focusing on finance and asset wealth growth) as counter intuitive. > Does the libertarian within you be
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by tokenizer 13y ago
As a libertarian-socialist, I'd love for us to collectively and indiscriminately provide everyone with a fair and appropriate basic minimum income. The only problem with this policy is how you pay for it. You can abolish all other form
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by tokenizer 13y ago
And I'm sure innovation in general is even harder to monitor. Well I still stand by my observation that the top rated countries are on average more monocultural and collectivistic (which would lead to better safety nets I'd hope).
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by tokenizer 13y ago
> If diversity in language diminishes a little bit, while humankind enjoys better health, longer lifespans,[1] and other benefits of increasing worldwide prosperity, I will feel wistful about that, because I am curious about all world la
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Thanks for the context. These statistics favor monocultural societies and collectivist societies over individualist ones. Your point on innovation is but one overlooked factor that these stats don't account for. I'd love to get so
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by tokenizer 13y ago
> Sweeping away all of this and replacing it with a relatively simple "Does this person exist? Are the eligible for the universal income?" would save so much money, and time, and stress. It would free people to do voluntary wor
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by tokenizer 13y ago
> The spending power of the basic income will ultimately reflect the value its recipients produced in order to obtain it - zero in this case. What do you think the purchasing power of welfare money is? Furthermore, can you really separat
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by tokenizer 13y ago
I am also not an economist, but I'd like to frame your Austrian/Keynesian comparison with another one: Underinvestment (Austrian): There is less investment due to risk being less preferable to steady savings. Example: I won't
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Thank you very much for your response. Furthering your point on neither deflation nor inflation driving economic growth but rather productivity increases, does that mean what the FED is doing through monetary policy zero sum? I subscribe to
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by tokenizer 13y ago
What's your opinion on inflation as an economic driver? I'm also a fan of deflation (as I want to save my money) but the Federal Reserve and other central banks (Japan being a notable example) are advocating for higher inflation,
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by tokenizer 13y ago
I'd go even farther than you are. By claiming "if you're a nerd", they're creating a class distinction where one group can and does ascertain truth, while the "others" cannot and will not. So not only is i
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by tokenizer 13y ago
> I think "libertarian socialism" is a worse than worthless contradiction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Exactly. If the goal of bitcoin is to be a great buy/sell commodity, then it's definitely looking like a fun rollercoaster ride! However if it truly wants to be considered a currency, the developments it needs are more ATMs (like
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by tokenizer 13y ago
I'm just critical of power and it's obligations. At many points in history, with enough power people can be made unaccountable. With less power, comes more accountability. This is why personally I think it would be better if we re
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by tokenizer 13y ago
I definitely agree with you. I subscribe to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism . That said, many, many, people believe that most people are not competent, and need to be taken care of/controlled&#x2
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by tokenizer 13y ago
This is a great idea. With the saturation the top 1 million websites have on regular search engines, I could see myself using this for more deepnet searches. Thanks!
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by tokenizer 13y ago
That saying leaves out one important piece of information from an ealier saying that it was influenced by: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but __ don't rule out malice __" http
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by tokenizer 13y ago
I'm just saying that powerful roles with attract power hungry people. Most regulation positions in banking and telecommunications are generally seated by previous company execs... So what's the difference in this particular regula
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Not at all. You're the one who stated that people are inherently bad and that they need to be controlled. I don't agree with Ayn Rand at all. I just believe in freedom and liberty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Agreed. We can definitly have unrestricted free markets with community owned syndicates and still be able to create tailored products and respond to demans. IMO, we need to start talking about workplace democracy if we're going to cont
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by tokenizer 13y ago
Doesn't this make the issue of this information being used against politicians and other public officials by ANYONE immediately oblivious? My question, is that why should we collect this much intelligence, if it's simply just goin
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by tokenizer 13y ago
What rates? The 20th Century was the most brutal period of war in our entire history. More than 40,000,000 people died in world war 2 alone. That's a low estimate... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_an
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by tokenizer 13y ago
But the 100% innovation would fix that instantly... You broke my horrible if or else argument! I took it more as being 100% responsible for your actions. But also yielding 100% control of those decisions/creations. But your point stand
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by tokenizer 13y ago
How are things improving? I'm guessing you live in some bubble land where everyone has a great life. San Francisco? War, Poverty, Oppression, and Moral Decay are more of a problem than ever. Don't mix up my points with social prog
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by tokenizer 13y ago
> Are regulators not people No. They are robots. Robots that know better. How dare you ask such good questions! You now owe us 40$ for violating my authority citizen! > Lessening risk is far more important than not stifling innovation
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by tokenizer 13y ago
> Moral Decay is far too vague and subjective to be usefully compared, but since it is often used as an excuse for Oppression, I feel confident in saying that it's an excellent thing if it is continuing unabated. I meant the decay o

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