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Re:Basic income doesn't emphasize divisions between poor and... by crdoconnor on Monday August 29, 2016 @11:24AM (#12382460)
>Don't let basic income advocates evade the question of who pays for their utopian scheme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

>Once you establish that people have a permanent, inalienable right to an income, you imply that others are obligated to provide them with that income.

No, you don't.

Wealth is created in one of two ways - by nature or by people.

The fairest and most equitable way to distribute wealth is to share the natural wealth equally as possible and try and make sure that people are compensated as closely as possible for the wealth which they create (e.g. Walmart billionaires).

Our economic set up ensures that natural wealth is kept among the ultra wealthy (e.g. oil barons) and the ultra wealthy can parasitically extract wealth created by others.

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