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RE: Comment: Dan Larimer's Basic Income Vs Unconditional Basic Income (Reply to @teamSteem)

in #universal-income8 years ago (edited)

It's a cruel system if the basis of a system is that all human beings basically require are sleep and eating. People afford that to slaves and prisoners. Most people sleep and eat now but is society happy?

A free society is one that allows everyone to reach their highest potential, whatever it is. Even the people you might judge "permanently lazy"

There is enough food for everyone in the world now without need for increased production or robots. Using sustainable, ecologically friendly agriculture will produce even more.

What you call "lazy people" aren't the cause of the problems.

Also, who's labor are you going to use to create those robot? You have to put something in to get something out of it.

It seems that many are brainwashed to think the problems are with certain subsections of society, rather the psychological burdens (and blindness) of society being exploited by those with power. The latter are also interested in hoarding resources through the centuries due to their own psychological burdens. Both greed and laziness are symptoms of parasitic mindsets that Dan's basic income idea will only perpetuate not tackle. I feel UBI is the only systems so far that is going to put these issues at the forefront and address the root cause. When people are given the freedom not to work, those with trauma will have the space to address them... for example, it's easy to judge another's "deadbeat" nature than it is to actually see this person is an veteran who's been traumatized or an addict who couldn't afford rehab or been heard/respected.

If you don't address this things, you're ignoring the roots of violence in the world and people being "forced" to do things. You will react to every show of force and immediately are triggered to react against it -- and be controlled/manipulated potentially.

It's clear people like Dan and you genuinely care about the world. But how much better would your systems be if you would explore and incorporate the basis behind human trauma, addictions, laziness, violence etc.

By saying remove taxation because it is violence and not addressing the roots of that violence, all you do is perpetuate and increase violence in other areas (obvious to see when you take a systems based approach).

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