Re:The Spaceballs Argument for Unconditional Basic Income
by nradov on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:19PM
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Wrong. Even if there were no property rights, there simply isn't enough food for 8B people to survive through hunting and gathering. So unless we want to kill off 90% of the population then we need large-scale agriculture. And strong property rights are absolutely necessary in order to maximize agricultural productivity.
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Re:The Spaceballs Argument for Unconditional Basic Income
by yunwal on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:40PM
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You can farm in the natural world as long as you can set up a system to protect your crops but also arguing about the precise amount of resources and agency afforded to you in the natural world is also missing some of the point.
By following social order, populations trade natural rights for the rights of their society. Collectively, the population can choose to stop doing that if they think they’re on the wrong end of the bargain. It doesn’t even necessarily have to be that they’re worse off, but that other parties receive much more of the surplus. This is how deals work in business and it’s the same thing here.