Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income
by pj_mukh on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @01:22PM
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No, actually that's straight up hyperbolic. There is no upper bound on the 20k employees' income i.e. not communism (or socialism even).
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Unless of course the governing body deems the massive revenue the 20k employees generate as "excess" and is confiscated for Basic Income in Africa - the company employing these people will have practical upper limits on what they can pay their employees as exists today - but with the additional caveat that governments can just take the money for "the common good."
It's globalism. It's socialism/communism.
What you've described is taxes.
so under your definition, all nations are today already globalist/communist/socialist.
Is this really that far from the truth?
yes, since communism has a defintion and isnt jsut some vague concept you can attach to any other system.
Do the means of production belong to the state? if not , it isnt communism.