ok what if i agree that broad-based immiseration is the real "root cause" issue that needs to be addressed...how do we solve given tools available? (rickety, manipulable, diverse federalist republic) ... i haven't read your entire oeuvre yet, maybe some ideas buried there...
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Replying to @brianjoseff @chaosprime
i'll start with one i particularly like: Civilian Conservation Corps, Depression relief program from 30s. voluntary work program with explicit goal being to give immiserated people route to agency and personal strength.
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i wish i thought us solving it was a thing that happens. i like yours, but how would one get anything past the "manipulable" part of your summary there? because it's important any solution be vastly worse than any problem it could possibly solve, we have lots of people...
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Replying to @chaosprime @brianjoseff
floating compulsory programs; isn't one of them just going to scoop up any work you do, hollow it out and wear its skin? i'd just like to slow down some of the people trying to make it get worse faster tbh
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Replying to @chaosprime
Ha yes. I'm at the point where I think nothing should be compulsory. It introduces a stress-point in the collective governance edifice. Whether it becomes one immediately, or in the future when the system evolves underneath the edifice and exposes it.
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Replying to @brianjoseff @chaosprime
so i actually would dodge my own question too, as you have. thinking we should, in addition to slowing the accelerators/meddlers, invest in improving our ability to be proactive. acknowledge our "fix it" impulses are foolish and doomed, and set about learning how to make them not
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Replying to @brianjoseff
i mean, i don't mean to be dodgy, i think your thing is a good idea if we could do it and i have things i think are good ideas, i just don't see how any of them would happen
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Replying to @chaosprime
haha no being dodgy is sometimes right. means we were trying to solve on wrong scale, or "win" the wrong game. but, in the spirit of preparedness--bc there is possibility we will be faced in immediate term with "do something" now or perish -- I would like to know possible ideas!
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Replying to @brianjoseff
sure, why not immediately terminate federal student loan subsidies, repeal existing loans' bankruptcy immunity, and make participation in your CCC pay off federal loans at $45/hr
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Replying to @chaosprime @brianjoseff
abolish the FDA and establish safe harbor with high indemnity insurance carry requirements for private food & drug safety certification agencies that are liable for damages from substances they certify
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tax income at a rate based on total assets rather than income decriminalize sex work abolish state lotteries and decriminalize numbers rackets
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Replying to @chaosprime @brianjoseff
terminate federal subsidies for flood insurance terminate federal subsidies for the fucking F-35
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either terminate the mortgage interest tax exemption or return tax exemption to all interest losses, don't care which make a real cultural enemy out of either China or Russia and go hard on how we need to economically outcompete them
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