The most important do the job reform is “to separate spend from work” with UBI.
This is a clip of Bayard Rustin arguing for universal basic income in 1965. The most important work reform (“the first and fundamental objective,” as he stated) that not once happened, which explains why everything is so poor proper now and everybody feels so powerless. Tax the rich with land value tax and value added tax then redistribute the revenue as universal basic income.
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I've never seen this before. The man is right. There isn't enough work. But there is enough food and money. The answer does seem obvious here. Let me and my family live even if there isn't enough work for me.
>Let me and my family live A ***FUNDAMENTAL*** human right. Everyone deserves to be able to live their lives comfortably. Nobody*needs* to be made wealthy, but everybody*deserves* to be made comfortable. Food and housing scarcity is not indicative of a healthy society.
There is enough work, there’s just not the resources being put towards it. We have collapsing bridges, outdated electric grids, national forests in deep need of stewarding, not enough dense housing for populations, a lack of medical facilities in many places, a shortage of doc...
Man knows his shit
This needs to be repeated, loudly and often.
I agree. When I was young I was introduced to the idea that systems should serve people, not the other way around. We're far from that goal right now and we need to right the ship.
Mass feelings of hopelessness and powerlessness are deliberate ruling class strategies to subjugate and maintain control over the public. The only way that minoritarian/oligarchic rule can work, is by convincing the majority of people that they're powerless to change the situ...
I agree with the principle that in a healthy society, all people deserve to have their basic needs met, full stop. But I respectfully disagree with the premise that there isn't enough work. We need teachers, we need people to fix roads and bridges and build railroads, we need ...
> But I respectfully disagree with the premise that there isn't enough work. When he said 'putting people to work,' he was speaking about jobs. There can never be enough 'jobs' handed out by a central authority. Yes, there's a multitude of work. But if some bureaucrat or ...