At 08:43 AM 2/21/98 -0800, Tom Walker wrote:
We have the reasons, well documented. The hard question is do we have the will?
I believe that we need not only the WILL but the MEANS.
At the risk of repeating myself, I believe that the MEANS may well be Direct
Democracy:
"a system of
In the "strongest" economy, even the cut-back
benefit system creates enormous deficits for
pubilic expenditure. So how do you envisage
in our present economic structure a basic income?
Eva
One practical reason for a basic income. Maintain effective demand in the
economy. Maintain purchasing
Durant wrote:
In the "strongest" economy, even the cut-back
benefit system creates enormous deficits for
pubilic expenditure. So how do you envisage
in our present economic structure a basic income?
I wonder if we've seen any *strong economies* lately
(except perhaps for Norway...).
In
We have the reasons, well documented. The hard question is do we have the will?
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Tom Walker answered:
I'd have a look at John Maurice Clark's writing
on labour as an overheadcost (in his _Studies in the Economics of Overhead
Costs_). Thejustification is that a wage system is no longer appropriate to
the way thata modern economy works. The wage system is a form of
At 03:34 PM 2/20/98 -0500, Thomas Lunde wrote:
Tom Walker answered:
If I can try and paraphrase your answer, it would be that we should change
because "a wage system is no longer appropriate to the way that a modern
economy works." And because of this, the cost of providing a worker is
borne by
One practical reason for a basic income. Maintain effective demand in the
economy. Maintain purchasing power. Going to be hard to buy all that
output without access to purchasing power.
arthur cordell
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Colin Stark wrote:
At 03:34 PM 2/20/98 -0500, Thomas Lunde wrote:
The last series of interchanges have been the main reason I joined (and
have remained lurking) on Futurework.
I just don't see that there are now enough needed jobs at sufficiently
high wages to give everyone (at least in the post-industrial world) a
living income. Many, perhaps most, people are
