Everyone who's getting excited about UBI should look into the Fair Tax plan. A portion of that plan has always essentially been UBI.
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Replying to @Outsideness @HbdNrx
... Realize there's going to be a huge "feature not bug" constituency on this. Gnon will punish it.
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Replying to @Outsideness @HbdNrx
Is it spitting on malthus' grave though? Doesnt it make sense for a state to cultivate its citizens for success in the broader market? Even if you believe in the state as fully subsumed to production its like... production of what exactly if not citizens?
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Replying to @realGenkiNeko @HbdNrx
First indiscriminately swap-out the citizenry for hostile dysfunctional third-world detritus, then indiscriminately subsidize it. Sounds like a plan.
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Replying to @Outsideness @HbdNrx
Well ok yes given the current configuration of things it's obviously not the plan. But in a world of neocameral sovcorps wouldn't they ultimately be competing to produce the best citizen? And wouldn't they subsidize the production of these? Of course this is far from 'universal'
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Replying to @realGenkiNeko @HbdNrx
I don't see how hand-outs are cultivating anything but dependency.
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Replying to @Outsideness
I don't think this is fundamentally different from debates about what we should tax or whether tax rates should increase with higher income/wealth though, especially in the national sales tax context. We already exempt the first
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Replying to @HbdNrx @Outsideness
What if the state's business model is it makes its citizens rich and powerful and they acquire moar capital on the international market using their riches and power
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Citizens are stockholders, remember. The State enriches them by increasing its stock value. That doesn't require wacky welfare schemes.
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