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Re:Basic income doesn't emphasize divisions between poor and... by ch4s3 on Monday August 29, 2016 @12:46PM (#12383151)
The pyramids were built with corvee labor as a tax scheme and antebellum America relied on slavery, even the industrial free states utilized cheap raw materials like cotton produced in slave states.

Are you suggesting that compelling people to work by force is an appropriate modern economic system?

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Re:Basic income doesn't emphasize divisions between poor and... by pmalynin on Monday August 29, 2016 @01:21PM (#12383449)
It's just as appropriate as 'flogging / periodic executions of lowest performing staff'

Hence my point.

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