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Re:We Need a Basic Income Guarantee by gizmo686 on Sunday September 01, 2013 @05:11PM (#6312164)
>I guess that's as close as you can get to socialism, and there's a lot of controversy surrounding it, since brazilian government is provenly corrupt.

I would say that is as close as you can get to capitalism (while having welfare). In the current welfare systems, the government funds specific programs to provide for the public. With a BI, the government gives money to individuals, and allows the market to arrange itself to provide for the public.

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Re:We Need a Basic Income Guarantee by hcarvalhoalves on Sunday September 01, 2013 @06:24PM (#6312419)
Actually, that's what I meant.

It's as close as you get to socialism (redistribution of wealth is a form of common ownership of the country's GDP) without rendering money useless (having the government provide everything for everybody).

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