On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 06:26:13PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Eugen Leitl wrote: [ on 06:05 PM 6/22/2006 ] > > >I'm wondering about the outcome of two alternative realities: > >one, a libertarian's wet dream, another, a scandinavian model > >on steroids (baseline citizen salary, financed by mostly > >noncorporate taxes). I honestly don't know which of both > >would win. > > Expand, please.
If we assume naturally driven people are most productive, and that many such are caught up in suboptimal configurations (the usual accursed $dayjob, aka the salt mines) then providing a baseline financial security would result in increased productivity. And of the best quality: love's labour, literally. On the other tentacle, it would encourage nonproductive menial barely ekeing it out to drop out altogether, thus becoming a resource sink, not source. There's a fork pending in the world's line: in a world where everyone's an enterpreneur, running on his own risk, and the world where the state steps in, and saves people from fucking up their own life too badly. Both can't co-exist, long-term. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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