On: A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing

[macawfish]

You're might not be holding a gun to his head, but at the end of the debt collection chain there is more than enough coercion and disenfranchisement to keep people doing things they don't want to do.

[beachstartup → macawfish]

you know, most people in the US are capitalist. if you want to push the idea of a basic income, it's probably not a good idea to get all communist-y and stuff.

[ticviking → beachstartup]

because pointing out the non-state chain of force is so much more out of fashion than the "taxes=theft" of the ur-capitalist rand worshipers?

[beachstartup → ticviking]

ooh boy, you have a lot to learn about sales and marketing of ideas.

but i guess that would make sense, .. since.. well, you know.