I’m lukewarm on UBI because we’ve raised the floor that way multiple times in history and it never solves anomie.
Still a worthy goal, but as a necessary, not sufficient condition for next-level flourishing. It’s less like utopia, more like free vaccines and public roads.
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What societies have come closest, historically, to solving anomie?
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1. The benefits of all technological innovations were realised decades after they were adopted and the appropriate systems around them were built. It was true for electricity, the automobile and the internet.
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“If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.” - Hokusai
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UBI would need The Stuffs to be less valuable to achieve less Power Signal of Things, perhaps?







