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Re:Basic income is just the beginning as Finland looks to ci... by nickpp on Saturday September 30, 2017 @07:04PM (#15375439)
Poverty is where we all started from. Free market is the one responsible of the reduction of poverty in most western countries.

To see the result of tightly controlled market, check out Venezuela and the old Easter European communist regimes.

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Re:Basic income is just the beginning as Finland looks to ci... by TheSpiceIsLife on Sunday October 01, 2017 @03:33AM (#15376815)
In support of this, have you happened across Deirdre McCloskey, and her tomes Bourgeois Dignity and two books that follow.

She does a decent job of thrashing out, at length, why the dignity to participate in the free market by innovating and bringing those innovations to market is the thing that created the modern world. In her own words she gives a "full scale defence of capitalism."

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