Jeff AtwoodMar 9
"Guaranteed Minimum Income isn't 'less progressive'. It's more practical. GMI puts the resources where they actually belong: with the people who are struggling, not in the mailboxes of the wealthy... and as a very wealthy person myself: hell no, give that check to someone who really needs it." https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/1qvngza/comment/o9gt50u/
Show threadNilsMar 9
@codinghorror Can't you implement the same by implementing UBI and raising income tax at the same time?
Show threadJeff Atwood
@nlswrnr and how to we get the wealthy and particularly the billionaires to pay taxes, exactly? Can you walk me through this step by step? We are in the second gilded age so there's more money in the hands of fewer people than at any other time in history
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Show threadNilsMar 10

@codinghorror No need to be snarky.

But yeah, I agree it's tough/near impossible to implement because money and power are concentrated so much, and you'd have to have people in money+power acting against their own interest.

But in theory it should work, no?

Show threadJeff AtwoodMar 11
@nlswrnr everything works in theory, man
Show threadNilsMar 11

@codinghorror The thing is, the global system has so many issues, and won't be sustainable without far reaching changes.

Why ban ourselves from thinking about them, and only allow ourselves to think about small changes that are more practical, but will only perpetuate the insustainability?