Bob McDaniel wrote:
A philosophical basis for a guaranteed annual income may have to await an
appropriate context for it to emerge. I suspect that the time is now past
when economic/political theory could be conceived without the explicit
incorporation of its technological context.
I agree. The obvious question Bob is, is the time now? Please put your
fertile mind to the question of what would you have to see, to decide that
the progressions you jotted down have now arrived at your last paragraph?
But the sophisticated electronic communications era has also
brought the chequeless and cashless society, and studies are underway to
displace money in favor of information. With all financial, productive,
distributive, and consumptive units on-line, the development of a complex
guaranteed income scheme becomes feasible (as it also becomes a necessity
in order to avoid a societal and economic breakdown!)
Do this in reality specific terms. Are we close to a societal breakdown?
How would we know? What conditions would or should exist for a radical new
paradigm to become popular?
Well, I know this is a load of loaded questions and I am making the common
assumption that you are like me and it is the questions that stimulate the
answers. If you choose to pass on my challenge, perhaps others would
comment.
Respectfully,
Thomas Lunde
