12/ This will of course be wrong at the margins. Prior odds for/against certain people becoming net assets/liabilities may be huge
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13/ Safety net should be designed with "good" failure in mind for 10-15 trial-and-error pivot opps btwn 14-30. Current: all failure is bad
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14/ Biggest point of contention in system design: is "dignity" (as opposed to food, shelter, healthcare) a safety net variable?
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15/ Pointless humiliation (being paternalistically given "food" stamps instead of cash to buy "vegetables" like pizza) should be avoided...
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16/ But it's a big leap from abandoning designed-by-cronyism-for-cronyism safety nets in favor of cash to thinking UBI can "solve" dignity
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17/ There's no alternate path to dignity besides earning admiration of the broad slice of society that bets on your value through good work
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18/ If only other art historians think you're valuable, or only other Ruby programmers think you are valuable, that's not enough
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19/ If you can't validate you value to the whole society that invests in you through support of a diverse, representative subset...
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20/ ...you're just part of a weak special interest trying to grow into a large, too-big-to-fail special interest. No different from bankers
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@okayultra read Francis Fukuyama, 'Political Order and Political Decay' if you actually want to know
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