Then money wouldn’t be money. Dad always said, “If making money was easy, everyone would do it.”
The US government could give every one of us $1,000,000 tomorrow. Would you have them do it? Would anyone go to work next week? How would you buy goods and services when everyone is a millionaire? “Gonna need $50K to mow your lawn.”
We could be 100x more equitable without breaking out the paint roller.
Resources and money are basically the same thing. Spread it around equally, well, kinda like the opening of Snow Crash:
…once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity…
(Awesome novel about late-stage capitalism and arguably the grandson of Gibson’s cyberpunk fiction.)
Yes, our needs could be met at current economic levels and population. But as population and education increase, people want more and more and more. It’s wired into our monkey brains. If everyone has the same shit, many will want more shit. Spread it all around evenly, you’ve only created hyper-inflation.
I don’t have an answer. We didn’t evolve to work in groups of more than 150, 200 max.
honestly no one will have the same as that would not work. it would be a combination of cash, land, stocks, etc. People could elect to keep things they have up to their share so they don’t have to move or such. Ill be honest I threw it out as more an ideololized thing. Would rather we tax and regulate so that wealth accumulation became harder the more you have (rather than being harder till you hit escape velocity and it then being easier) and use tax to make sure their is a floor of folks being able to have essentials but given the question I threw this in as my choice.
Then money wouldn’t be money. Dad always said, “If making money was easy, everyone would do it.”
The US government could give every one of us $1,000,000 tomorrow. Would you have them do it? Would anyone go to work next week? How would you buy goods and services when everyone is a millionaire? “Gonna need $50K to mow your lawn.”
We could be 100x more equitable without breaking out the paint roller.
I did not say just money.
Resources and money are basically the same thing. Spread it around equally, well, kinda like the opening of Snow Crash:
(Awesome novel about late-stage capitalism and arguably the grandson of Gibson’s cyberpunk fiction.)
Yes, our needs could be met at current economic levels and population. But as population and education increase, people want more and more and more. It’s wired into our monkey brains. If everyone has the same shit, many will want more shit. Spread it all around evenly, you’ve only created hyper-inflation.
I don’t have an answer. We didn’t evolve to work in groups of more than 150, 200 max.
honestly no one will have the same as that would not work. it would be a combination of cash, land, stocks, etc. People could elect to keep things they have up to their share so they don’t have to move or such. Ill be honest I threw it out as more an ideololized thing. Would rather we tax and regulate so that wealth accumulation became harder the more you have (rather than being harder till you hit escape velocity and it then being easier) and use tax to make sure their is a floor of folks being able to have essentials but given the question I threw this in as my choice.
Yes! Our only hope of digging out is to make the case for taxing the snot out of the rich. We can’t all be rich, but a rising tide lifts all boats.