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RE: Finland is doing an experiment to hopefully eradicate poverty. - Through a universal basic income.
I really don't think that the welfare state is a long-term solution to promoting human progress/success..
Yeah getting everything you create would be a better system but we are locked in capitalism until a revolution.
Actually we are in a crony capitalist system.. which is more aptly described as corporate fascism than actual free market capitalism :D
I think innovation and serving the needs of others voluntarily is a much better avenue to eradicating poverty than using extortion/theft/force via the welfare state :D
congrats on your post doing well!
The rich making money off the work of the poor is theft. The working class made the tools, maintained them and labored on them. The rich only move capital around. "crony capitalism" is the choice of the rich as it gives them power more easily. You can't let them keep their power and try to change the system.
I agree, what we need is a communalist,post scarcity society. But certainly not an anarcho-capitalist society,that is my worst nightmare.
As an anarchist, I want to get rid of the state, but as an anti-capitalist (and post capitalist) I see that the market forces need to be under some kind of public scrutiny. The state provides this, with varying efficiency depending on the country. AS of now, without a state, market forces would run rampant, and we get oligarchy. All decisions would be made by the 1 percent of the one percent, they would have all the power, and the money to hire armies and security guards.
The state is the tool by which the 1% of the 1% screws the rest of us over...genius....
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