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sylph (39)in #basicincome • 7 years ago
RE: Why inequality is growing so extreme and how Alaska points the way to the solution
Government R&D is based on government income from tax, and everyone participates in that. That's not based on some rich people's whim. The cellphones you just mentioned is…
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sylph (39)in #basicincome • 7 years ago
RE: Why inequality is growing so extreme and how Alaska points the way to the solution
So far, universal basic income pilots have shown that people will not suddenly stop working if they have enough money to live, though. We could, in fact, increase the…
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sylph (39)in #basicincome • 7 years ago
RE: Why inequality is growing so extreme and how Alaska points the way to the solution
That's only relevant when everyone is able to buy a second car, though. Inequality is currently so extreme that some people cannot even afford to go to doctors, dentists, or even…
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sylph (39)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
RE: Unverinaturalism
I have a somewhat similar thought about the universe. Each of us is an interconnected part of the whole of everything that exists, and everything is also a part of us. Every…
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sylph (39)in #guns • 7 years ago
RE: A Discussion About Guns
Sounds good! XD
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sylph (39)in #guns • 7 years ago
RE: A Discussion About Guns
We might be one of the freest first world nations as far as our freedom to exploit each other and foreign nation goes, but we're definitely not free from being exploited.…
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sylph (39)in #guns • 7 years ago
RE: A Discussion About Guns
I think a lot of people cannot comprehend that when multiple values intersect, we do not have to choose between just one of them... but we must instead consider how they…
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sylph (39)in #history • 7 years ago
RE: 85 Years Ago Today, Hitler Carried Out a “False Flag” Showing How Gov’t Can Control With Lies and Fear
That's a bipartisan thing too, and none of the people that voted for it feels any remorse about all the casualties. Everyone that voted yes for Iraq war should have been stripped…
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sylph (39)in #history • 7 years ago
RE: 85 Years Ago Today, Hitler Carried Out a “False Flag” Showing How Gov’t Can Control With Lies and Fear
I'm not sure about many of the conspiracy theories.... but it is a fact that we're squandering so much of our resources on foreign war to enrich the lobbyists, to keep people…
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sylph (39)in #guns • 7 years ago
RE: Common Sense on Guns
Yeah, that's why regulations must be restricted and limited in scope to things that are really necessary and not excessively burdensome to those that aren't likely to harm…
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sylph (39)in #guns • 7 years ago
RE: Common Sense on Guns
The cost of a firearm safety certificate program should be pretty cheap and accessible too, and maybe the result of that test could also be tied to the cost of the insurance. Gun…
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sylph (39)in #politics • 7 years ago
RE: On Centralization and Representation: A Dialectical Libertarian Approach
Categorization/generalization could be helpful in helping us make decisions, especially on issues that currently cause harm towards other people. Obviously, not all rural people…
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sylph (39)in #basicincome • 7 years ago
RE: Unconditional Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century
Nope, but that's interesting! I'll check. :)
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sylph (39)in #basicincome • 7 years ago
RE: Unconditional Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century
Maybe with each person having only one account, some form of universal basic income automatically distributed, each person having equal or close to equal voting power/weight…
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sylph (39)in #basicincome • 7 years ago
RE: Unconditional Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century
And ensuring that consumers have the ability to truly make those choices is obviously the best way to promote a competitive market. Competition is reliant on the consumers having…
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sylph (39)in #politics • 7 years ago
RE: The Genealogy of Liberty: Positive Liberty, Negative Liberty, & Republican Liberty
People in free societies just don't suddenly wake up one morning to find that all their freedoms are gone and they now live in a Totalitarian state (invasions not withstanding).…
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sylph (39)in #anarchism • 7 years ago
RE: Property as Theft: The Libertarian Socialist Critique of Property (Part 1)
Yes. I personally like the idea of having a monetary system and the concept of the free market. I sometimes argue with anarcho-communists/communists/etc about the necessity of…
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sylph (39)in #politics • 7 years ago
RE: Obama Killed the Anti-War Left [Steemit Exclusive]
That's the most tragic part of our two-party politics. The neoliberal democrats hesitate on funding universal healthcare/etc, but they're also perfectly fine with funding and…
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sylph (39)in #anarchism • 7 years ago
RE: The Precarity of Anarchy: A Reason to Doubt
The blockchain is quite a transformative technology. It's the dawn of a new world with new possibilities. :)
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sylph (39)in #anarchism • 7 years ago
RE: Property as Theft: The Libertarian Socialist Critique of Property (Part 1)
Native Americans believed in usufructuary rights and collective ownership of natural resources. Usufructuary rights: "In indigenous cultures, usufruct means the land is…
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