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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by mac01021 on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @06:44PM (#11624839)
> Why? Is it someone else's land that you're trespassing on, using up their resources, hunting their animals, etc?

Yeah. Just about every bit of land is owned by someone. In order to have my own land to live off of I need to produce some income to pay property taxes, lest the state confiscate it from me.

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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by CWuestefeld on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:16AM (#11628053)
And it's not a question of 1% owning "too much", either. A hunter-gatherer life is hideously inefficient. There isn't enough land on Earth to support even a small fraction of the population living this way.
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