(If I sound like I've been repeating myself some lately, I apologize. These issues are highly charged, and I'm searching for the best way to frame and word things.)
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Do you have any proposals, or even vague hints of proposals?
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a vague hint. I view wealth and income inequality as a necessary but undesirable byproduct of the system that creates enormous wealth in the first place. in other words, it's a form of pollution. rather than try to engineer a system that doesn't produce inequality we should (1/N)
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clean up the inequality pollution that it does create since we don't want to suffer the (social) environmental degradation that it causes. this is explicitly an argument for a variety of social democracy or welfare capitalism. getting the details right is the hard part (2/N)
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its unavoidable that we must in some fashion redistribute resources as a part of the inequality pollution clean-up. there are lots of mistakes that could be made while trying to do this though and my own understanding of it is limited enough that I hesitate to say more (3/N)
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I like broad-based policy proposals like UBI because avoiding particular favoritism seems psychologically healthier to me. I hope that it's also more efficient too but I don't actually know if it is. I want ameliorative policy that doesn't exacerbate other problems (4/N)
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finally, I don't think that solving material resource distribution problems is sufficient. it's necessary, but not sufficient to achieve a more satisfactory/integral social fabric and that's what we really need. ultimately I think the problem is a spiritual one though (5/N)
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I don't mean that everyone should join a church (or any other institution or organization). I mean that confronting the reality of the world and it's history is identical with eating the shadow, or processing our karma, or any other psycho-social metaphor you like. (6/N)
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addressing material issues first is probably good pragmatic policy. less things to distract from grappling with these spiritual problems. racial resentment and youth alienation are not really going to be solved by a check in the mail every month though. (7/N)
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