At 03:34 PM 2/20/98 -0500, Thomas Lunde wrote:
>Tom Walker answered:
>
>If I can try and paraphrase your answer, it would be that we should change
because "a wage system is no longer appropriate to the way that a modern
economy works." And because of this, the cost of providing a worker is
borne by society as a whole and when business becomes more efficient and
produces more with less labour the costs to society increase. Therefore the
current system has an imbalance in the redistribution of income.
Thank you for boiling it down
>
>I think many would agree with you but the question I would ask is what
philosophical reason would justify introducing a Basic Income in answer to
the unspoken question of those who are benefiting from the current system?
Because!
Because IT IS OBVIOUS!
Just do it!
Who cares about philosphical, hypothetical, theorizing?
There are 3 answers -- plus a hypothetical question!
Colin Stark
