Welfare to work (fwd)

1998-09-04 Thread Michael Gurstein
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Re: Basic Income(3)

1998-09-04 Thread Steve Kurtz
Greetings Thomas all, This is my last post regarding Thomas Lunde's B.I. Note that my prior comments were off list( S 2), as were T L's immediately prior to mine from which quotes T 2 come. Thomas acknlowledged that scarcities might exist outside Canada. Given globalization of markets, and

Re: collapse defined

1998-09-04 Thread Ed Weick
Jay Hanson: Tainter defines "collapse" as a "rapid transformation to a lower degree of complexity, typically involving significantly less energy consumption (Tainter 1988)". This may or may not include widespread violence. In fact "collapse" could look a lot like the kind of society some

Re: Basic Income

1998-09-04 Thread Ed Weick
Thomas, I've never thought of myself as being in a box, nor have I ever thought of Keith Hudson as being in one. And I'm very glad that you had a great trip across Canada with your children. It sounds as though it was a lot of fun. Keith will want to speak for himself, but I will try to