Commentssylph (39)in basicincome • 7 years agoRE: Why inequality is growing so extreme and how Alaska points the way to the solutionGovernment R&D is based on government income from tax, and everyone participates in that. That's not based on some rich people's whim. The cellphones you just mentioned is largely the results of…sylph (39)in basicincome • 7 years agoRE: Why inequality is growing so extreme and how Alaska points the way to the solutionSo far, universal basic income pilots have shown that people will not suddenly stop working if they have enough money to live, though. We could, in fact, increase the productivity of society by…sylph (39)in basicincome • 7 years agoRE: Why inequality is growing so extreme and how Alaska points the way to the solutionThat's only relevant when everyone is able to buy a second car, though. Inequality is currently so extreme that some people cannot even afford to go to doctors, dentists, or even to not be…sylph (39)in philosophy • 7 years agoRE: UnverinaturalismI have a somewhat similar thought about the universe. Each of us is an interconnected part of the whole of everything that exists, and everything is also a part of us. Every little experience we…sylph (39)in guns • 7 years agoRE: A Discussion About GunsSounds good! XDsylph (39)in guns • 7 years agoRE: A Discussion About GunsWe might be one of the freest first world nations as far as our freedom to exploit each other and foreign nation goes, but we're definitely not free from being exploited. Lobbyists compete against…sylph (39)in guns • 7 years agoRE: A Discussion About GunsI think a lot of people cannot comprehend that when multiple values intersect, we do not have to choose between just one of them... but we must instead consider how they intersect. The right for…sylph (39)in history • 7 years agoRE: 85 Years Ago Today, Hitler Carried Out a “False Flag” Showing How Gov’t Can Control With Lies and FearThat's a bipartisan thing too, and none of the people that voted for it feels any remorse about all the casualties. Everyone that voted yes for Iraq war should have been stripped of their position.…sylph (39)in history • 7 years agoRE: 85 Years Ago Today, Hitler Carried Out a “False Flag” Showing How Gov’t Can Control With Lies and FearI'm not sure about many of the conspiracy theories.... but it is a fact that we're squandering so much of our resources on foreign war to enrich the lobbyists, to keep people divided, and to keep…sylph (39)in guns • 7 years agoRE: Common Sense on GunsYeah, that's why regulations must be restricted and limited in scope to things that are really necessary and not excessively burdensome to those that aren't likely to harm others. The level of…sylph (39)in guns • 7 years agoRE: Common Sense on GunsThe cost of a firearm safety certificate program should be pretty cheap and accessible too, and maybe the result of that test could also be tied to the cost of the insurance. Gun Safe/etc should be…sylph (39)in politics • 7 years agoRE: On Centralization and Representation: A Dialectical Libertarian ApproachCategorization/generalization could be helpful in helping us make decisions, especially on issues that currently cause harm towards other people. Obviously, not all rural people are racist, but…sylph (39)in basicincome • 7 years agoRE: Unconditional Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st CenturyNope, but that's interesting! I'll check. :)sylph (39)in basicincome • 7 years agoRE: Unconditional Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st CenturyMaybe with each person having only one account, some form of universal basic income automatically distributed, each person having equal or close to equal voting power/weight, etc, that could work…sylph (39)in basicincome • 7 years agoRE: Unconditional Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st CenturyAnd ensuring that consumers have the ability to truly make those choices is obviously the best way to promote a competitive market. Competition is reliant on the consumers having options. That…sylph (39)in politics • 7 years agoRE: The Genealogy of Liberty: Positive Liberty, Negative Liberty, & Republican LibertyPeople in free societies just don't suddenly wake up one morning to find that all their freedoms are gone and they now live in a Totalitarian state (invasions not withstanding). It is a process. It…sylph (39)in anarchism • 7 years agoRE: Property as Theft: The Libertarian Socialist Critique of Property (Part 1)Yes. I personally like the idea of having a monetary system and the concept of the free market. I sometimes argue with anarcho-communists/communists/etc about the necessity of money and the benefit…sylph (39)in politics • 7 years agoRE: Obama Killed the Anti-War Left [Steemit Exclusive]That's the most tragic part of our two-party politics. The neoliberal democrats hesitate on funding universal healthcare/etc, but they're also perfectly fine with funding and justifying war. The…sylph (39)in anarchism • 7 years agoRE: The Precarity of Anarchy: A Reason to DoubtThe blockchain is quite a transformative technology. It's the dawn of a new world with new possibilities. :)sylph (39)in anarchism • 7 years agoRE: Property as Theft: The Libertarian Socialist Critique of Property (Part 1)Native Americans believed in usufructuary rights and collective ownership of natural resources. Usufructuary rights: "In indigenous cultures, usufruct means the land is owned in common by the…
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