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

[Antonio Garcia]

Only resorting to protectionism if not done by all countries at the same time, evicting radically from their marketplace any company that does not comply.

I dare suggest the mere impossibility of such a scheme is what finally brought down the Berlin wall.

It takes a far more conscious civic movement to impose this kind of protectionism as a de facto reality rather than a political imposition. When dodging taxes translates automatically into brutally losing sales to aware citizens.

Like when Microsoft collaborating with the NSA translates automagically into sufficient people switching over to Linux on their existing machines, and refusing to buy any new computer with Windows preinstalled.


Antonio.

> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 07:46:08 -0400
> From: rms at gnu.org
> To: pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
> CC: pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
> Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] Basic income - how does that fit into	the	pirate ideology?
> 
>         [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
>         [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
>         [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.
> 
>     Small sarcastic footnote, Switserland is a country  that has the funds to
>     do this. 
> 
> Any developed country can have the funds for a basic income
> (or whatever else is needed) if it stops businesses and the rich
> from tax-dodging.
> 
> -- 
> Dr Richard Stallman
> President, Free Software Foundation
> 51 Franklin St
> Boston MA 02110
> USA
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> Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
>   Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.
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