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"Your unconditional basic income is a nice idea, but here's the flaw in your system: It reestablishes how the old social benefits worked, but it doesn't change anything on the factor "prices". As well as that it doesn't change those facts that still each year it's the goal of all national economies to impress each other by proving how much percentage they can compile in attaching zeroes to the sums of the last year ( = GDP) and that the economy it ought to function in only can keep itself up by generating lots of fictional money that doesn't exist out of credits it didn't hand out to one customer, so it's whole self-asserted "growth" is nothing more than multiplying the sums that have originally been there before a few hundred, a few thousand years ago. In other terms: Not only you keep adjusting the sum each year, you also don't change anything that makes it so nessecary that this basic income needs to exist at all. You only make the circumstances takeable again. But that because you don't really know what you're trying to fight when you talk about "overcoming capitalism".
You're still one of those dreamy starry-eyed idealists that don't know how the world they live in really works."

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Date: 11 October 2016 07:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] onb2017.livejournal.com
Here I agree with you. It seems like an attractive idea for some but it is a definition of utopia. It is like giving everyone a million bucks and voila everyone is rich... Yeah, right.

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Date: 12 October 2016 01:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mandarinsun.livejournal.com
If everyone had a million dollars, then the price of bread would be like $100,000.

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Date: 12 October 2016 12:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] onb2017.livejournal.com
Sure enough and still someone needs to make bread. It won't just appear if people wave million dollars like a magic wand.

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Date: 12 October 2016 02:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] onb2017.livejournal.com
Exactly, sometimes just expenses and time associated with going to work and being there make it attractive to stay home and save on gas and food and clothes etc. It is like an invitation to a crisis.

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