I’m not saying invent tax systems that model philanthropy. Philanthropic intentions are generally reactionary, tribal, worse than kin-selfishness. But it has the right kind of expressiveness of inclusion relationship: to people, whales, climate, space programs, whatever.
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In genetics, every individual organism’s genome is a map of relationship to the entire biosphere. If you pass on your genes directly or indirectly, you also pass on 99% genes of chimpanzee genes, 80% of lobster genes etc (look up actual numbers... they’re in the ballpark)
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You are a holographic model of Gaia effectively. Inclusive fitness - Darwinian competition between competing Gaias, not genes, individuals, groups or species. Selfish Gene = Selfish Gaia theory. A more powerfully expressive post-capitalism economics would do the same for memes.
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Let’s call the memetic equivalent of Gaia... Maia! Selfish Meme = Selfish Maia How do you translate this refactoring into an economic idea? Trick might be to map transactions to reproduction rather than feeding.
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What do you think of this approach? Replace taxes with a “donation leaderboard”, and government spending with a basic income. Donation to the leaderboard destroy currency and thus reinforce the Gaia meme.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dvJM5dN6XwV77rDAUxYGnWYmPR8wELsiBoV4BpUxfyk …
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I’m against explicit allocation. Everything drafts off actual transactions.
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there is only one thing explicitly allocated here - the basic income, which is essentially a design statement that human lives have value.
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As for things drafting off transactions, I expect people will find ways around paying transaction based taxes, and their capacity to do so will go up as their wealth increases. You don’t think that’s a problem?
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But the seller has an incentive to ensure transactions are logged since each transaction compounds future tax share. So only the desperate will accept black market transactions. I don’t like “human life has value” as a design condition though I like the sentiment.
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Without specifying to whom a particular life has value, it becomes an empty aspiration. You could perhaps treat your UBI as an initial and declining subsidy, like a rolling book advance. Badly disabled etc will need to be explicitly adopted by people/institutions who care.
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Sounds heartless I realize, but making them abstract wards of an impersonal welfare system is a cure worse than the disease, since it is the excuse for creating most of the state.
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Yeah this is the main reason I’m skeptical of UBI (even though on Net I support it.) you can’t replace family, and weakening family structures to create some state attempt at an equivalent sounds like a net loss.
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