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Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial by skybrian on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @03:09PM (#24214768)
People talk about it a lot but I don’t think there is any agreement on what fairness is.

Note that having a leader at all means someone has more power, and that’s inherently unequal, but most people think the benefits are worth it.

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Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial by baconandeggs on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @03:55PM (#24215446)
The law should be the leader. Sadly we have forgotten that.
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Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial by chordalkeyboard on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:38PM (#24216083)
then the people who write the laws become the leaders, except with a layer of obfuscation. how do we make laws that treat everyone equally?
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Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial by ghostwriter on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:01PM (#24216405)
> how do we make laws that treat everyone equally?

by stopping enacting laws that are oriented towards the abstract "society as a whole" and "benefits to the society as a whole", and by beginning treating an individual as the smallest minority in the world whose unalienable rights require protection from the crowd.

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