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03-06-2017, 12:42 PM
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Here's an interesting article on the subject of a...
Here's an interesting article on the subject of a guaranteed minimum income.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/06/utopian-thinking-poverty-universal-basic-income
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02-15-2017, 05:23 PM
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You call it accuracy. I call it nit picking. ...
You call it accuracy. I call it nit picking.
I'm looking at the big picture.
Human beings being replaced by machines.
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02-15-2017, 05:02 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvwqK2gn3S0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvwqK2gn3S0
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02-15-2017, 04:58 PM
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So? BFD. I don't care what you call...
So?
BFD.
I don't care what you call it.
Do a "find and replace" and put "automation" in where I said "robotics".
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The Unemployment Line
02-15-2017, 03:45 PM
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Tom Joad
Eat shit and die, you bastard motherfucker.:)
Eat shit and die, you bastard motherfucker.:)
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The Unemployment Line
02-13-2017, 09:40 AM
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This is one of the better articles I've read on...
This is one of the better articles I've read on the rationale for a guaranteed minimum income. Although she does propose funding it with taxes, while Don recommends quantitative easing which I think...
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02-13-2017, 08:21 AM
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Tom Joad
Go big or go home, that's my motto. I prefer...
Go big or go home, that's my motto.
I prefer to look at it as "thinking outside the box".:)
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The Unemployment Line
02-12-2017, 03:06 PM
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Tom Joad
Whatever it takes to get away from this soul...
Whatever it takes to get away from this soul sucking notion that one has to work 40-50 hours a week for 40-50 years just to survive.
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The Unemployment Line
02-12-2017, 11:56 AM
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We will need a few workers bees. To make it...
We will need a few workers bees.
To make it fair, we'll set it up like the military. Everybody will have a worker bee obligation of two years. You'll have the option of enlisting into the worker...
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02-12-2017, 09:28 AM
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Smart guy this dude. Way ahead of his time. ...
Smart guy this dude. Way ahead of his time.
http://i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz359/Dog_of_the_Earth/ZwntXtZ.jpg (http://s843.photobucket.com/user/Dog_of_the_Earth/media/ZwntXtZ.jpg.html)
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02-11-2017, 02:50 PM
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Which is fine with me. Inflation hurts creditors...
Which is fine with me. Inflation hurts creditors more than it does debtors. And these days most creditors are predators. So fuck them.
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02-11-2017, 11:02 AM
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http://joebageant.net/?p=246
http://joebageant.net/?p=246
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02-11-2017, 11:00 AM
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We can use quantitative easing to get rid of the...
We can use quantitative easing to get rid of the debt.
Just print the money and pay it off. :)
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02-11-2017, 10:46 AM
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Tom Joad
Like I said, I'm a type B slacker. So I'll...
Like I said, I'm a type B slacker.
So I'll let donquixote do all the work while I kick back and take snarky little potshots at Whell. :)
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02-11-2017, 09:41 AM
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Actually the idea that Don has presented is a...
Actually the idea that Don has presented is a damned good one and just might work.
And that's what terrifies you.
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02-11-2017, 09:33 AM
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I like this idea Don.
I like this idea Don.
Forum:
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02-10-2017, 06:32 PM
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That's where the guillotines, or my stake burning...
That's where the guillotines, or my stake burning comes in. :)
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02-10-2017, 06:31 PM
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We could do with a little hyperinflation. It...
We could do with a little hyperinflation. It would help out all these people that are upside down on their mortgages. The banks would hate it. :)
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02-10-2017, 06:20 PM
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Tom Joad
I like the Game of Thrones style Stake burnings...
I like the Game of Thrones style Stake burnings myself.
But the tree huggers would probably get all over my ass about the number of stakes I was using. :D
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02-10-2017, 06:18 PM
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Tom Joad
That's a whole other subject but I agree with...
That's a whole other subject but I agree with you.
Both the planet and the US are already overpopulated.
We are well over 300 million right here in the US. I don't know what our max should be...
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02-10-2017, 05:56 PM
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I've been skating like that for the past 9 years....
I've been skating like that for the past 9 years.
40 years if you count the 31 years I spent "working" for the government.
My contribution to society has been pumping my paychecks and then my...
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02-10-2017, 05:48 PM
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Tom Joad
Being a Type B, I'm not going to expend any of my...
Being a Type B, I'm not going to expend any of my own effort to reply to you.
Instead I'll go with "What Don said". :)
http://www.politicalchat.org/showpost.php?p=347347&postcount=11
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The Unemployment Line
02-10-2017, 04:34 PM
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Not a bad idea. When I was a freshman in...
Not a bad idea.
When I was a freshman in 1965 our economics 101 instructor told us that due to increases in worker productivity we would only have to work 20 hours a week by the time we were his...
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The Unemployment Line
02-10-2017, 03:31 PM
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Tom Joad
You would get enough for basic necessities by not...
You would get enough for basic necessities by not working. You work for the luxuries and frills.
Type A's like you will be happy to work to get more material stuff.
Type B's like me will be...
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The Unemployment Line
02-10-2017, 02:55 PM
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Tom Joad
I don't care what anybody says, due to dramatic...
I don't care what anybody says, due to dramatic increases in worker productivity we have a surplus of labor.
Robotics is going to make this surplus even more acute.
It's a wet dream for...
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