Re:Basic income doesn't emphasize divisions between poor and...
by jimmyk on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @08:07AM
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But it will never be enough to satisfy all human wants and needs.
More than enough for what purpose?
Surely you understand that if we're using those robots and that skyscraper to grow weed, we can't also use those robots and that skyscraper to produce some other good. Surely you understand that less of some other goods would be produced because we chose to use that particular productive capacity to grow weed rather than to produce those other goods. Surely you understand that the raw materials, including human labor, used to build the robots and the skyscraper were not available to be used to produce other goods, and that the energy needed to grow the weed could not be used for other purposes. Surely you don't believe that human desires have already been fully sated, except for more pot, and that resources are just sitting around idle until jobless stoners get UBI money to buy pot.
This is the first I'm hearing that capital is "essentially imaginary". What do you mean by that? What do you mean by 'capital'?
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