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Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial by garmaine on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:19PM (#24213952)
Lol, no. Just no. The capitalism experiment is everything that has happened from the industrial revolution (really, earlier) forward. Compare with the 19th, 18th, or 17th century, and you’ll find today’s wealth gap is smaller, people live more prosperous lives, happiness indices improved, etc. Not to mention the literally billions of lives that wouldn’t otherwise exist at all.
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Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial by throwaway_kufu on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:46PM (#24214427)
The old billions wouldn’t even be alive but for capitalism.

Well if capitalism is responsible for all the good it must be responsible for all the bad, like industrial warfare like WWI and WWII.

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Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial by garmaine on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:22PM (#24216706)
Because war didn’t exist before capitalism /s

Per-capita violence has been in steady decline for this time period.

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Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial by throwaway_kufu on Thursday August 20, 2020 @05:03PM (#24228933)
Because people weren’t born before capitalism?

“Per captia” violence? That is a hell of a qualifier you need.

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Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial by garmaine on Thursday August 20, 2020 @06:35PM (#24229824)
It’s not a qualifier, it’s the only way to measure which makes sense.
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