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Re:Unconditional handouts benefit recipients and their neigh... by darksaints on Saturday November 23, 2019 @01:35PM (#21615637)
Yeah, that's the real problem here. We've long known that limited forms of communism, such as cooperatives and communes, can function extremely well in small self selected populations, but fall apart when they get big enough to be taken advantage of by bad actors. I think there's a future for basic income, but I'm not going put faith in it for broader adoption without vastly broader study.
Re:Unconditional handouts benefit recipients and their neigh... by farrarstan on Saturday November 23, 2019 @09:29PM (#21617982)
And capitalism?
Re:Unconditional handouts benefit recipients and their neigh... by nine_k on Saturday November 23, 2019 @11:28PM (#21618355)
Capitalism is a system that builds some form of increasing prosperity using people's selfish behaviors.

Historically, outright capitalism at scale had outperformed outright communism at scal. Europe is actively experimenting with small admixtures of communism / socialism to overcome some of the shortcomings of capitalism, as they see it.

Re:Unconditional handouts benefit recipients and their neigh... by farrarstan on Sunday November 24, 2019 @12:02AM (#21618474)
how long do you think history is?
Re:Unconditional handouts benefit recipients and their neigh... by nine_k on Sunday November 24, 2019 @10:50AM (#21621066)
Capitalism proper only exists for a few centuries.