Moving Forward on Basic Income

Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by alttab on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @03:40PM (#11817489)

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.

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Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by unprepare on Thursday June 02, 2016 @09:18AM (#11822189)

What you've described is taxes.

so under your definition, all nations are today already globalist/communist/socialist.

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Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by alttab on Thursday June 02, 2016 @12:04PM (#11823618)

Is this really that far from the truth?

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Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by unprepare on Thursday June 02, 2016 @12:19PM (#11823756)

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.

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Re:Moving Forward on Basic Income by tobylane on Thursday June 02, 2016 @09:09AM (#11822120)

So what happens in the (potentially short) period before the government deems that as excessive? Assume for a moment that they costed it out and it's sustainable.

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