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Re:It Is Time For Basic Income by mekael on Friday March 21, 2014 @08:52PM (#7446271)
If we can create , then we can destroy just as easily.
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Re:It Is Time For Basic Income by PeterisP on Friday March 21, 2014 @10:00PM (#7446762)
It's not enough to 'destroy' money, you'd have to prevent it from reappearing. Since it's easy for communities to create 'money', destroying it won't bring any freedom or radical change; just disruption.

It's just as with anarchy - you can destroy government, but you can't prevent "government"(s) from springing up to replace them, and usually worse than the ones before.

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Re:It Is Time For Basic Income by stcredzero on Saturday March 22, 2014 @12:23AM (#7447545)
It's not enough to 'destroy' money, you'd have to prevent it from reappearing.

If you can't get rid of drugs and prostitution, you won't be able to get rid of money.

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Re:It Is Time For Basic Income by atom-morgan on Saturday March 22, 2014 @07:22PM (#7451318)
History has shown that black markets are extremely resilient. Those two are great examples.
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Re:It Is Time For Basic Income by hueving on Friday March 21, 2014 @09:24PM (#7446504)
Idiotic equivalence. There are very few processes that can be reversed just as easily.

Radiation, waste heat, carbon dioxide - the list goes on and on.

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Re:It Is Time For Basic Income by atom-morgan on Friday March 21, 2014 @09:19PM (#7446468)
Markets are powerful.
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