Colin Stark wrote:
Because!
Because IT IS OBVIOUS!
Just do it!
Who cares about philosophical, hypothetical, theorizing?
Because IT IS OBVIOUS!
Just do it!
Who cares about philosophical, hypothetical, theorizing?
Thomas
If I was God - woops sorry I just looked in the
mirror. If it is obvious ....? Obviously it isn't. Working on
the premise that no one does anything to deliberately harm themselves, the
reason "they" don't do it is because they do not have a compelling
reason of positive good for themselves. If you stand on a street corner
with a $5 bill and offer to give that five dollars for a penny, an obvious gain,
most will suspect that you are trying to cheat them in some way and refuse your
obvious good.
The Enlightenment which is the basis for our
current system of democracy and capitalism came from a few philosophers who were
able to successfully argue that the "divine rights of kings" should be
superseded by the concept of individual "rights". It is my sense
that we need to successfully argue that a Basic Income provides more benefits to
everyone than the "divine rights of capitalism".
Respectfully,
Thomas Lunde
