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RE: Libertarian Social Democracy: Delegative Democracy, Land Value Tax, & Universal Basic Income
Ideally, sure...but I don't think it would work in the real world. Plus, I advocate the wholesale abolition of work altogether. Automate everything, socialize ownership of land and machines, give everyone a basic income.
In order to get anywhere we have to go from here to there.
I think free stuff for less work would sell to the masses very well.
It is concise in 4 words.
Automate everything, account for nothing in 'money'.
Each person floats on their own accomplishments, not accomplishments started by their grandpas, et al.
As for working in the now, we have to start engineering the consent in some now, how about this one?
That is, after all, how we got here to suffer as victims of the bush/Clinton crime family.
Bernays sold out to the rule by forcers.
Alinsky showed them how, luckily the trick he published didn't have companions.
We'd be in real trouble then, imo.
If you haven't noticed, you have to multiply the numbers by ten, now, as sbd is trading about 11.
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Automation only works if the people who control the capital assets don't use it to extract wealth from everyone else. This is why the predictions about people in our day and age having the problem of figuring out how to use up our leisure time were incorrect - economic privilege wasn't factored in.
I favour the idea of a Star Trek-style higher consciousness society, too, but I think we're quite far away from reaching that point and need to figure out the stepping stones that can get us there, as you said.
We need to address the issue of economic privilege. Switching to a land value tax would help us to accomplish this.
On any given tuesday the workers can keep working while refusing to pay, and as long as the work continues to be done the goods are available.
Crapitalism holds many delusions.
We have to have workers, we dont have to have dollars.
Dollars create nothing, workers do.
Stop buying into the lie that makes you a slave and somebody else boss.
You are the victim of a grand fraud.
Are you saying “don’t pay taxes because nothing will happen”?
I'm saying keep working, stop paying, and the tax men can find real work.
Not one truck is loaded by digital cash in banks, or anywhere else.
Workers do all the work, why they buy their own production back from folks that didn't do anything except be favored by the system, I don't know.
I’m glad that you’re framing things in terms of taxing production. It’s completely unfair to punish people with more and more tax just because they’re being more productive.
I look at alternatives. The most libertarian-friendly is land value tax (or land value rent). It’s still a tax, but it’s the least unfair one (I take a stepping stone approach).
Im talking no taxation at all.
Everybody gets fed, clothed, and housed by the community on the expectation that they not be bums.
I figure those that excell can figure out machines to do most anything, so most drudgery will not be done by humans, alone.
We would have robots now, if not for the crapitalusts.
They know starving workers will burn their houses.
So instead of innovating we stagnate to keep those in power in power.
Rule by force is the disease, who and how are symptoms.
I’m not going to argue against the no tax thing. I wouldn’t argue against eliminating money, either (I grew up watching Star Trek). I don’t expect that it’ll happen in my lifetime, though.
I reckon whether we advocate it or not, automation will happen, and the market economy will eventually become obsolete.
Once you reach that point, what is the point of a market, other than social status?
Keep working, stop paying.
Bring on the robots.
As a carpenter, I am in one of the fields most automation proof. I'll probably be working for scooby snacks until I croak.
Well, we got to do something, eh?
Might as well make something useful.