RE: So you think universal basic income is "free money" or "socialism"? Think again.
Um, if the blockchain can be co-opted for the purpose of control, then I don't see what difference the ID makes. Are you seriously suggesting that anyone that has you phone number and address holds some sort of power over you?
Any attempt to use it as a means of coercion (by whom? the witnesses?) would be transparent in the ledger. Since its whole reason for existing is to provide UBI, breech of that would mean the currency becoming worthless as its unique selling point would be proven to be fraudulent.
When you say we have many other options to providing UBI, it would be interesting to hear what you think these are.
As for prefering everyone be dirt poor, I think a mass population of dirt poor is more easilly coerced than a population with UBI. Dirt poor eat what they are given and sleep where they can. A population with UBI has economic agency to buy what they want.
Are you seriously suggesting that anyone that has your phone number and address doesn't have the information necessary to hold some sort of power over you?
The main reason I use Steemit is the anonymity.
I'm suggesting the only power they have over me is the power to contact me or send me things in the post. Do you worry about the pizza delivery guy having your address and phonenumber? Or the taxi you ordered? Your friends you invited over for a party?
That's quite a pack of straw men.
Do you post your bank account number and pin number on the blockchain? Do you post your address and where you keep your spare key?
For business, I try to provide, only those who need it to do business with me, the information necessary to do so. Personal associations have their own uncertainties, and I am sparing in my distribution of my personal information.
Try having your identity thieved and abused, and then let me know what you think.
There are other options in the world than being clinically paranoid or lying naked in the middle of the road with butt cheeks spread wide.
You think they store the address and phonenumber in the blockchain? Ah, I guess that explains your reaction. Perhaps if you'd explained that fear in the first instance...
I can't reassure you on that, as to tell the truth I assumed it would be better organized, and in any case I plan to move soon, so the details I gave will become redundant before too long. Personally, for what it is worth, I doubt the details are stored in the blockchain, and if they are, I doubt they are stored unencrypted. That would be really bad design.
That was not a fear, or a statement, but a question to see how dedicated you are to the idea that everyone should have to show their papers before being allowed to exercise their freedoms.
ID is for slaves.