Erratum: Murray proposed this as a scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, not the Cato Institute.
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:14 PM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > To be fair, Ed, the left wing fights the solution too. The solution being > the unconditional basic income. It was the last thing Martin Luther King, > Jr. recommended as the proper solution to inequality -- just before he was > assassinated. The Southern Poverty Law Center has never advocated it > despite proclaiming itself the recipient of Dr. King's mantle subsequent to > his assassination. Curious that they would fight a race-neutral cure for > inequality that Dr. King himself recommended, thereby setting white working > class against blacks due to affirmative action most directly impacting the > white working class. No major Democratic party candidate has ever even > proposed it. The closest anyone with any prominence in public policy has > come to a serious proposal for it has been a libertarian scholar with -- of > all places -- the Cato Institute: Charles Murray's "In Our Hands: A > Plan to Replace the Welfare State"<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skDgS5nEY6c> > > > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com>wrote: > >> Good point Stewart. People like to hear about all the good things the >> future holds but its the bad things that are worth knowing so that they can >> be avoid. For example, people look forward to having their work done by >> robots but each robot puts several people out of work, who now cannot >> afford to buy a robot or anything else. In spite of this problem becoming >> obvious, the right wing fights the solution. What does that say about the >> future? >> >> Ed >> >> On Jan 2, 2014, at 11:48 AM, ChemE Stewart wrote: >> >> Yeah, he missed the part about 1/55 kids with autism, amphibians >> disappearing, starfish melting, birds dropping from the sky, trees >> disappearing, reactors melting down, reefs bleaching, Earth warming, >> Alzheimer's and >> some cancers increasing. Other than that it is one big f($$& worldwide >> party... :) >> >> On Thursday, January 2, 2014, Jed Rothwell wrote: >> >>> See: >>> >>> http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/23/lifetimes/asi-v-fair.html >>> >>> Too optimistic about many technologies, but not bad. Arthur Clarke did a >>> better job in my opinion. >>> >>> - Jed >>> >>> >> >
