On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Mauro Lacy <[email protected]> wrote:
> ** > On 01/11/2012 11:28 PM, James Bowery wrote: > > The only way to get capitalism to work is to shift the tax base from > economic activity to the liquidation value of assets, and set the tax rate > to the interest rate used to calculate liquidation value. > > But no one with wealth wants that to happen even though just about > everyone who has high incomes would want it to happen. > > So, due to political economic considerations, capitalism cannot be made to > work. > > This is not to say that socialism can be made to work, since in order to > do so it would require that the liquidation asset interest collected by the > government be dispersed equally to all citizens, no "means testing". > Socialists want to figure out how to spend your dividends for you because > they're so smart and all. > > In other words: All fall down. > > > given that the western world is so advanced at the technological level, > perhaphs it should consider using that wonderful advancement to try to > advance also at the social, political and economical levels, where it's > clearly lagging behind the curve. > You can't have advancement in science hence technology unless you can conduct controlled experiments to untangle correlation from causation. The only way to ethically conduct controlled experiments in the social sciences is to promote assortative migration forming experiments in human ecology under mutual consent. The best way to facilitate that assortative migration, and the associated territorial reallocation, is the citizen's dividend I described. Anything less that claims to do social engineering based on "science" is bullshit.
