Re:The brave new world of robots and lost jobs
by yummyfajitas on Friday August 12, 2016 @05:54PM
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Ok. The only thing I'm proposing doing is reducing the disincentives to joining the private sector. Comparisons to the Soviet Union are nonsensical.
Re:The brave new world of robots and lost jobs
by dragonwriter on Friday August 12, 2016 @06:12PM
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> The only thing I'm proposing doing is reducing the disincentives to joining the private sector.
No, that's not all you are proposing. You are proposing a particular mechanism that you claim is aimed at that goal (not merely proposing the goal itself), which has concrete features beyond just the goal you claim for it.
> Comparisons to the Soviet Union are nonsensical.
Perhaps, but you haven't provided a reason to believe that, just offered a factually-incorrect distinction between your proposal and the labor policy of the Soviet Union.
AFAICT, this was strictly true (if at all) only between the first Five Year Plan and 1936; the private sector (that is, non-government directed business) was restricted in both what markets it could participate, and the forms of business (in most markets where private industry was allowed, the only business form allowed was the individual independent worker/owner, to use the language of capitalist economy) but it was not nonexistent.