I'll always sympathize more with feeding the poor than with disgusting oligarchs, but you gotta actually outdo them at the drawing board, don't you?
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The cavalcade of people attacking e.g. Elon Musk for his flawed utopias and Hughesesque antics can't come up with a single idea that isn't Old Modernist BS.
The same people make fun of his (lack of) philosophical or political grounding. But then why are their ideas even worse?
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Oh well. I probably shouldn't waste my time shouting in the wilderness about this.
Gonna go have myself a good think about this.
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I think the goal of marginal - or, better, substantial and long-term - improvements in the daily lives of ordinary people has the potential to free up a huge number of wasted hours of people's lives and give the breathing room to make much bigger changes.
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Yes. But the "many, not the few" slogan is pretty pitiable when you understand how many of the profits of how many people's economic activity are needed.
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You want a Norway-esque UK, yes? It will work up to a point, but requires a substantial resource drain on everywhere else.
The equilibrium state is neocolonialism.
Not saying Brits shouldn't vote Labour. Saying we need to do better than social democracy as a planet. Layers, etc
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For sure, it's a drop in the ocean compared to what's really required - but whenever anything close to the necessary changes start to be made, those at the bottom get hit first and hardest. A fairer system across the board should even out the inevitable pain that is to come.
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Oh by all means. Let all nations form states, then nationalize, if for no other reason than to crash a broken system so it can be replaced.
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That's it for me. Same thing with Basic Income; I don't actually think it would solve anything - it might even prolong a flawed system - but it could be a very useful stepping stone if it was implemented properly and defended at all costs.
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Basic income globally is already a vastly better idea than social democracy, even if it keeps the same power in place.
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I think if the current power gave us UBI, it wouldn't really be UBI. So we need decent people in positions of power first, then local UBI (or other such society-changing measures), then a substantial movement to save the world as we know it in a way that doesn't kill poor people.
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Current power is a nonstarter for UBI. But rentier extraction can most certainly continue under UBI.
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