> Eva Durant wrote:
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> In the "strongest" economy, even the cut-back
> benefit system creates enormous deficits for
> public expenditure. So how do you envisage
> in our present economic structure a basic income?
>
> Thomas:
>
> Well, I don't. But that is not my concern at the moment. My concern is =
> to try and find a compelling reason to change that would be acceptable =
> for all or the majority. Details - details, there is plenty of time to =
> argue details.
>
I think everybody accepts, that a system with a load of
overworked workers and lots of uneployed/underemployed
is madness. The common argument is not philosophical
but this "who would pay for GAI, I don't want to" thing,
at which point you have to contemplate the
communication turning into the idea about
a different economic system. It is a very
important detail...
Eva
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