Perhaps instead if Universal Basic Income, there should be universal basic food, universal basic health care and universal basic housing?
During socialism, the working class still had to show up for work, but its factories were controlled by committees, not by an elite of owners with skin in the game. Unless you were caught stealing you could no get fired, and there was no incentive for innovation or efficiency.
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It sounds like we both agree that socialism in East Germany was less preferred. Help me understand how you get to top-down rulership.
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Perhaps think about it like a nervous system, or from a cybernetics perspective. Decision making needs to represent available information and actual incentives (this is sometimes hard to see because people are confused by moralistic stories).
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