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Re: A way to lessen inequality in Bitcoin
by
Carlton Banks
on 02/01/2014, 15:56:27 UTC
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

basic income is a well studied economic proposal - if government wishes to start this they could certainly pay people in btc.
Certainly they can, but as long as they keep collecting the money through taxes it is an immoral use of force.

Agreed.

100 years ago, you could move to America if you didn't like socialist style governments. You could vote with your feet. Since the US started the income tax and the Federal Reserve, that declined, slowly, but declined. They've still got vestiges of a republican system in the US, but it's slowly turning into a centralised, corporatist caricature of the type of country that the US constitution was meant to safeguard.

The people of the world need a free choice again. If you like communist/socialist style government, there should be some opportunity to live like that. Centralised or decentralised (the decentralised version of communism has not been practiced in anywhere but tiny little tribes that live outside the reach of a central government AFAIK). And if you want libertarian/liberal capitalism with a republican constitution, there should be an opportunity to live like that too.

The 20th century was spent molding the world's people into the belief that whatever system you thought your country was living under, that was definitely what you were getting. All the nice people at the newspapers, and those noble politicians, and the glamorous celebrities, they all told us so! But it was all a long con; US capitalism was a long con, Soviet communism was a long con, European socialism was a long con. All of those systems would have been fine if they worked as advertised, but "reality" always ended up contorting the system into corporatism with a little flavour of what the people thought was supposed to be the ruling doctrine. There was always some event that came along where the politicians would basically say "this communist/capitalist/socialist thing is all fine, but this is also real life, and we've been forced to do something that goes against it! Sorry!"