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RE: Basic Income must be global or it will fail.

in #basicincome8 years ago (edited)

Does the Sun give us energy for free, or do we owe something in return? (ask the Aztec priest as he tears another beating heart out to offer up on a golden plate to the Sun).

From whence this "basic income" and what will recipients owe in return? Their freedom of choice, thought, movement, religion, speech? And to receive this "basic income", what privacy must the recipient give up? Eventually all privacy, if I can correctly think it through.

I guess we will all eventually face the decision as to which we value more, liberty or life (as in "give me liberty or give me death").

The Grand Inquisitor
"The Inquisitor frames his denunciation of Jesus around the three questions that Satan asked Jesus during the temptation of Christ in the desert. These three are the temptation to turn stones into bread, the temptation to cast Himself from the Temple and be saved by the angels, and the temptation to rule over all the kingdoms of the world. The Inquisitor states that Jesus rejected these three temptations in favor of freedom, but the Inquisitor thinks that Jesus has misjudged human nature. He does not believe that the vast majority of humanity can handle the freedom which Jesus has given them. The Inquisitor thus implies that Jesus, in giving humans freedom to choose, has excluded the majority of humanity from redemption and doomed it to suffer."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor

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