This is going to strip away layers of rhetorical fog and start to expose the essential issues in political economy in such a way as to bring immigration into rational economic perspective -- although the deeper issues of cultural heritage are still largely obscured. For that reason alone, every rhetorical trick in the book is going to be thrown at it in an attempt to reinsert bureaucratic discretion on the disbursements. But more important in the long run is the revival of the yeoman class's contribution to scientific revolutions. The Swiss are already at the forefront ofartificial intelligence research<http://www.idsia.ch/> .
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Switzerland is considering giving every citizen $2,800 a month gratis, > with no strings attached. We have discussed this idea here from time to > time. See: > > > http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/10/19/swiss_government_giveaway_2_800_a_month_for_all_citizens.html > > QUOTE: > > "We are not proposing a minimum income — we are proposing an unconditional > income. A minimum wage reduces freedom — because it is an additional rule. > It tries to fix a system that has been outdated for a while. It is time to > partly disconnect human labor and income. We are living in a time where > machines do a lot of the manual labor — that is great — we should be > celebrating." > > - Jed > >
