At 10:45 98-02-25 -0500, Thomas Lunde wrote:
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>This is indeed truly exciting a perhaps a valid reason why a grassroots
debate come education process should take place in the medium of the
Internet on Lists like FutureWork. One of my thoughts to those who have
queried the costs of such a system of income redistribution of a Basic
Income and to which I have replied "wait" is that I think an education
process arrived at through discussion of the philosophy of "why" is more
important than "how", without negating that in the future, that will have
to be an important discussion. The fact that you have presented us with
historical evidence that I, at least, was not aware of is very important.
So to end this little essay, it would seem to me and I hope to others, that
a Posting of the Canadian Franchise be posted into this discussion ASAP.
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As an engineer I consider the feasibility of anything to ponder as crucial.
e.g. let's say the GAI is $1000./year. In Canada, at say 30 millions of us,
that means 30,000 million CAD. Now by the general reaction to Martin's 2.5
billion CAD to students over ten years, I've grave doubts about the chances
of any Basic Income soon, unless it can be shown to be feasible.
Not wishing to rain on your parade, but ... The "why" battle is won, the
hard part is the "how" war. Good luck.
Amicably,
"The end of labor is to gain leisure." Aristotle.
-- ARG d'Ottawa ON Canada. Futuriste-au-loisir maintenant. --
