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Re: more from Johns Hopkins
Date:
Thu, 03 Sep 1998 01:02:11 -0700
From:
"Ray E. Harrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Jay Hanson wrote:
IMHO, it's mostly a problem of
I refer to Thomas Lunde's original subject and Ed Weick's comments on it.
I'll abstract one para:
(EW)
This is an idea that goes way back to Major Douglas and the original social
credit. I don't think it can happen that way. The reason that the poor
have no money is that they are not on
I've read the review and have gone back to reread parts of the Manifesto
itself. What incredible idealism the Manifesto contains! And what
perversions in the name of that idealism have actually occurred!
ok, I slept on it and I cannot leave it... what is more Idealism
in the
Even among the former Communists, (good 19th century scientists) this
has been turned to a puritanical rigidity
If you mean Marx et al, you're wrong. The most picked up
and ridiculed of their ideas by contemporaries were
those on free love, which they developed from the
french utopian
I read with interest Thomas's sun god analogy, which I think is brilliant.
I would only add that perhaps our sun god is "the Marketplace" with its
"invisible hand." The work ethic is more like an archaic ritual habit in
service of this god. The habit, like all habits, formed when our northern
From: Ed Weick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are no doubt many factors that determine whether civilizations
collapse slowly like Rome or quickly like the FSU and ex-Yugoslavia. I
believe a large factor is ethnic homogeneity. After all, our culture
demands that we find someone else to blame. It's
From: Ray E. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have suggested that the traditional Greek solution is not a
bad one. Begin with developing the perceptions through the
Arts and make work fit the goals of individual and group
psycho-physical development. My cynicism about that has
This would be an
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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 12:14:08 -0600
From: "Emilie F. Nichols" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: How did Russia GET plumdered?
Forbes - September 7, 1998
Russia used to live off its commodities exports. When a handful of
privateers got
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Date: September 2, 1998 8:46 PM
Subject: FW: Re: Basic income
"Thomas Lunde" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thomas: Population is a problem, but I believe that
The Numbers
In round numbers, Canadas population is 30 million and if every citizen
received the Basic Income, the total cost would be $450 billion. Canadas
current budget is $150 billion leaving a shortfall of $300 billion. Seems
pretty impossible, doesnt it?
Just for example, lets say
2. The second feature is the redistribution of income. Currently, income
earned from wages is taxed more than income from other sources such as
investment and corporate taxes. This has created a major imbalance in that
income tax accounts for 70% of government revenue while corporate taxes
The Family Basic Income Proposal
by Thomas Lunde
March 9, 1998
Money, we all need it, but too few of us are getting it. Traditionally, we
got money through work or investment. One of the millennium crises, is the
collapse of work as a means of getting money for many people. Nowhere is
this
Dear Thomas,
How would B I help in these conditions? I'm not trying to razz you, just
passing along examples of what I read weekly.
Steve
Thomas: I'll give it a try. First and foremost the population is out of
control - why? Is it religion, cultural beliefs in terms of support for the
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