Tor Forde wrote:
>
> The danger that a Guaranted Annual Income is posing is that it can be a
> way to put people away.
[snip]
> A Guaranteed Annual Income could be regarded as a kind of scholarship
> that lasted as long as it will take for people to be able to make it on
> their own.
You know one of the problems here: Who will judge who is worthy of
getting such a scholarship?
Do you think that if the Committee on Worthiness was composed of
a bunch of rabid reductionist scientists and their fellow-travellers,
they would fund me to spend my life digging "critical" [use whatever
word you want] tunnels under their position [Weltanschauung -- err...
"physical world which exists and is knowable independent of what people
think about it"]? Would they fund me to keep trying to find some
argument
that would do the rhetorical equivalent to them of what the Union Army
was trying to do with dynamite to the Confederates in
Petersberg by tunneling under their trenches during
the American Civil War?
I've been "at" this project for almost 20 years now, and I have yet to
get a nickel *from* it (although I've "sunk" probably more than
US$200,000 *into* it -- when direct expenses ($100K?) *and* lost income
due
to unpaid leaves of absence from work to go to school, etc.
are all added in)....
\brad mccormick
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