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RE: Is the Western world Sleepwalking into a Totalitarian Nightmare.
You didn't go off topic at all :) I enjoyed the read. But I do still think the press is quite rightwing. The Tele is subsidised, so remains. MSN news is all Murdoch. It's meant to blind the masses. And the Government is stymied because its majority is so slim. But maybe that's a good thing? Except they're not achieving anything. Without workers a country can't function. Keep the workers happy, I say :)
Let’s just make and keep workers in general. Make working rewarding for the people and welfare unliveable and the ENTIRE country will prosper.
I’d love to see major and revolutionary tax reform that basically incentivises hard work. Would only work if we could cut out the hoards of people with their hands out looking for free money.
Welfare is a necessary evil and I'd prefer if people got welfare than have to see kids living rough on the street. If that happened, I'd be one of the do-gooders who went out and gave them a home. I prefer them to have welfare because I wouldn't sleep at night, knowing there were thousands of cold, hungry kids without a roof over their heads. So I support welfare. But a UBI, payable to everyone would be fantastic. You could still work on top, but the awful paper passing jobs that support current welfare system would go....the paper-passing part would pass to the blockchain....
There was a trial on the UBI in Europe last year I beleive. I'm pretty sure they found it to be a complete failure as i didn't encourage anyone to work so less people did work and more people just slipped between the cracks.
It's been operating quite successfully in Norway for some time. Now, I'm going to do a study on it :-) Happy Steeming and just, BTW, due to having suffered the devastation of Cyclone Debbie, I haven't "worked" since. I've been supporting myself, trading crypto :) so I've found another means of income, while I oversaw the repairs to my place. They are now complete, and I'm loathe to return to my previous employment, from which I took extended leave. I like working for myself, and I must say, I've worked extremely long hours, and when I wake up, the first thing I check is the state of the markets....and I dream about them in my sleep. So I'm easing off now, been driving myself too hard. I think there is a high possibility that robots will take over an enormous amount of jobs previously done by people. At the moment, Wall Street is being run by bot-traders. When it all falls apart, there will be hell to pay :)) Happy Steeming, and I look forward to the introduction of a UBI :) I think life should be less stressful and more about family.