Chester
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↪Frank Apisa Not wanting to work is not the same as not being good at it. — Chester
Chester
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↪NOS4A2 Many jobs can not be done by machine...especially the sort of stuff I do, but the real drudge can be done by machine...fruit picking..law... that sort of shit. — Chester
the exercise of force and coordination of power are the conditions of, and not constraints upon, the exercise of freedom. — StreetlightX
see prioritizing social welfare - establishing a baseline of core human values that supersede monetization - as the focus. Freedom can take care of itself as long as we start to take care of each other. — Pantagruel
schopenhauer1
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↪Frank Apisa
But c'mon.. nothing will change. More technology doesn't change the way money is distributed. Revolutions in ways of life seem to cause massive death, so that's out. My advice is to simply not put more units of labor to experience work in the first place (don't have kids!). If you put someone in a game they didn't ask for and then say, "But you should like it because I like it", that seems pretty unfair, and now they are stuck with your decision. — schopenhauer1
In fact, America could dramatically increase its overall productivity...if it limited the number of people who are allowed to work.
EVERYONE should be provided with "enough"...and "enough" should be defined as the kind of life one could live if earning $50,000 to $60,000 per year. — Frank Apisa
One could argue the various communist countries have attempted this approach, and have noticeably failed on the freedom front. I'm skeptical that freedom can take care of itself, because there are always those would like to have power, or deny it to others. That's why rights have to be explicitly protected. — Marchesk
Sure. And on the other hand, does it seem that Trump is driven by the welfare of his voter base? — Pantagruel
And one could argue his voter base gets what they voted for. — Marchesk
I'm guessing anarchists will disagree with this — Marchesk
Sounds like doublespeak without specifying what sort of exercise and coordination, and why it's necessary. Any group in power is going to be exercising force and coordinating their power. It's how they rule. But what sort of exercise and coordination results in a free society? — Marchesk
Marchesk
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In fact, America could dramatically increase its overall productivity...if it limited the number of people who are allowed to work.
EVERYONE should be provided with "enough"...and "enough" should be defined as the kind of life one could live if earning $50,000 to $60,000 per year.
— Frank Apisa
Sounds fantastic, but can this be afforded? $50K times the number of adults in the US (rounded down to 200 million) is 10 trillion dollars.
The second part of this is that you're paying people not to work, unless they want to. Question is whether the economy can be productive enough to support the taxation needed to provide everyone with that $50-60K a year. — Marchesk
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