<div dir="ltr">Thanks, James and Carlo. Really worthwhile spending a few minutes on your thoughts. Truly.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 at 13:22 carlo von lynX <<a href="mailto:lynX@pirate.my.buttharp.org">lynX@pirate.my.buttharp.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 09:19:47AM -0400, James O'Keefe wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
> I see robots as just another form of capital, and the question becomes what<br class="gmail_msg">
> happens if a larger and larger portion of production only requires capital<br class="gmail_msg">
> and raw materials and not labor? You really cannot divorce this process<br class="gmail_msg">
> from the 40 year march of neoliberalism and the increase in power of<br class="gmail_msg">
> capital over labor.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Nice thought. Thx.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Personally, I find the belief that people should get a lump sum to care for<br class="gmail_msg">
> all of their needs (including health care and education) and leave them to<br class="gmail_msg">
> the failings of the market for key areas like health care is a step<br class="gmail_msg">
> backward. I would rather quality universal single payer health care before<br class="gmail_msg">
> a basic income, but then I live in the US.<br class="gmail_msg">
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The idea that UBI can provide for health care is profoundly wrong.<br class="gmail_msg">
UBI is not designed to handle ethically legitimate spikes in need.<br class="gmail_msg">
I think I discussed this in my posts mentioned beforehand, and I<br class="gmail_msg">
think none of the Pirate Parties have promoted such injust and<br class="gmail_msg">
unethical Milton Friedman style models of UBI. If that is the only<br class="gmail_msg">
UBI you have heard of until now, disinformation and manipulation<br class="gmail_msg">
is having its way!<br class="gmail_msg">
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On 10/26/2016 12:21 AM, Paul Tidwell wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
> I am enjoying your owning of Milton Friedman and the neoliberal<br class="gmail_msg">
> ideologues. In particular because I signed up For Grantcoin and am<br class="gmail_msg">
> already receiving it but i'm trying to figure out how to get it set up<br class="gmail_msg">
> and people talk about how a UBI would be inflationary and would "erase"<br class="gmail_msg">
> all the benefits via the inflation mechanism but this is a really<br class="gmail_msg">
> really dumb view of economics. One of the key problems I have with Econ<br class="gmail_msg">
> right now is most of the market that's out there as well as voting<br class="gmail_msg">
> public still essentially believes that Currency derives it's value from<br class="gmail_msg">
> it's scarcity as a currency and that's the only thing that generates the<br class="gmail_msg">
> actual value of the currency itself. So essentially the Quantity theory<br class="gmail_msg">
> money is getting in the way and since most of the public uncritically<br class="gmail_msg">
> accepting the quantity theory of money they're voting as if it's true.<br class="gmail_msg">
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I think legislative regulation is a lot more powerful than physical<br class="gmail_msg">
quantity. The only thing that hurts regulation is globalization, and<br class="gmail_msg">
that is a political problem: the limited ability of humanity to agree<br class="gmail_msg">
on common ethical and thus economical standards. It's a sociological<br class="gmail_msg">
problem and worldwide liquid democracy could be an experimental way<br class="gmail_msg">
to address it. Produce a platform that credibly and representatively<br class="gmail_msg">
deliberates for worldwide humanity. The credibility would come from<br class="gmail_msg">
the quality of the output which I would expect to be mind-bogglingly<br class="gmail_msg">
good as past experience has showed me.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> <a href="http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2010/07/quantity-theory-of-money-critique.html" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2010/07/quantity-theory-of-money-critique.html</a><br class="gmail_msg">
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Excellent. So people have been expressing judgments making wrong<br class="gmail_msg">
assumptions on the foundational knowledge. That's a pattern on a<br class="gmail_msg">
lot of topics.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> But I would go further in that the "neoliberal" view that you're<br class="gmail_msg">
> criticizing here: <a href="http://my.pages.de/outcomunisten" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://my.pages.de/outcomunisten</a><br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> It basically says that it would "Delete the benefit to the poor" by<br class="gmail_msg">
> causing inflation which seems to be what Milton Friedman's calculations<br class="gmail_msg">
> suggest that on balance inflation would end up yielding no benefit to<br class="gmail_msg">
> the poor because prices would just rise proportional to the<br class="gmail_msg">
> unconditional money that was now in the system.<br class="gmail_msg">
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If that was accurate, then Hartz IV would have failed.<br class="gmail_msg">
The German economy should have gone completely bonkers.<br class="gmail_msg">
Instead government just adapts it each year. No big deal.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> 1. It's already in the system now. And in particular Cryptocurrency has<br class="gmail_msg">
> a way of interacting with the main economy, It may take a few hoops to<br class="gmail_msg">
> jump through but grantcoin and other cryptocurrencies can eventually be<br class="gmail_msg">
> exchanged back into the dollar. So we already have ONE cryptocurrency<br class="gmail_msg">
> offering a universal basic income and there will probably be more to<br class="gmail_msg">
> come over time.<br class="gmail_msg">
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How can that work if the wealthy cannot be obliged to participate?<br class="gmail_msg">
Or are you thinking of a cryptocurrency which is obligatory for all of<br class="gmail_msg">
humanity?<br class="gmail_msg">
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I presume that unregulated forms of exchange cannot provide for any<br class="gmail_msg">
ethical guarantees, that's why I promote <a href="http://taler.net" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">taler.net</a> over any blockchain<br class="gmail_msg">
stuff, but you can try to convince me otherwise.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> 2. It treats inflation as the biggest enemy in society and to the<br class="gmail_msg">
> economy and to the market which ??? Why? People say inflation hurts the<br class="gmail_msg">
> poor but the people saying this are ignoring the fact that it hurts the<br class="gmail_msg">
> Banks and Creditors far more. People who LEND money are harmed FAR more<br class="gmail_msg">
> by it because it screws up their returns by insuring that what their<br class="gmail_msg">
> loans get paid back with is now worth less.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Yes, I too see inflation as a tool to reduce inequality, albeit an<br class="gmail_msg">
insufficient one given the absurd levels of inequality we have reached.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> 3. Inflation isn't the biggest problem out there. In fact right now it<br class="gmail_msg">
> isn't much of a problem at all. Unemployment as well as underemployment<br class="gmail_msg">
> and employees who are overqualified for their positions are a mcuh<br class="gmail_msg">
> bigger problem at present.<br class="gmail_msg">
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It's like the hype against taxes. Taxes should serve the poor and middle<br class="gmail_msg">
class and get back a fair share from the super-rich, yet the utter<br class="gmail_msg">
stupidity of comparing taxes to robbery catches on and drives all<br class="gmail_msg">
sorts of uneducated people into supporting political moves for more<br class="gmail_msg">
inequality. Their anger is manipulated into driving themselves even<br class="gmail_msg">
deeper into misery. The incapacity of people of acting in their own<br class="gmail_msg">
interest is impressive and a solid threat to the survival of humanity<br class="gmail_msg">
on the planet.<br class="gmail_msg">
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