[pp.int.general] Basic income - how does that fit into the pirate ideology?

illunatic at greenpirate.org illunatic at greenpirate.org
Sat Jul 13 04:56:49 CEST 2013


Kind of have to agree with that as I recently cut back to two days at  
my current job because I need more time available to do other things  
which pay more. They job was more than minimum wage, but not enough to  
fit my lavish lifestyle (sarcasm).

Quoting Antonio Garcia <ningunotro at hotmail.com>:

> Oh, yeah! Instead of being 50 units short to get to the end of the  
> month, people would prefer to have nothing at all. Might be an  
> option for people that do not accumulate fixed cost in their aim of  
> running their life, like mortgages and such.
>
> I love intelligent comment and cheer it when I see some ;) .
>
>
>> From: me at travismccrea.com
>> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:40:15 -0400
>> To: pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
>> Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] Basic income - how does that fit into  
>> the	pirate ideology?
>>
>> I have never heard of this argument? in reality it has no basis. If  
>> a company was paying you less than basic income, you would just not  
>> take the job, or you could quit the job.
>>
>> On 2013-07-12, at 10:06 AM, Cal. wrote:
>>
>> > On 12 July 2013 15:38, Betiel <betielix at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Personally I believe having a basic income helps to avoid abuses  
>> from some
>> >> unethical companies.
>> >
>> > It depends. A common leftist objection on basic income is that it
>> > enables "unethical evil company" to offer jobs for very very very low
>> > wages.
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