Forum Overview :: Motherfucking News :: Re: That's exactly what I did, in fact

[quote name="Lizard_King"][quote name="Senor Barborito"]I jumped straight from an extremely rational discussion to the twilight zone, but I had a damned good reason - I CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS IDEA AND IT'S DRIVING ME CRAZY(ER). But yeah, let's assume we attach an employed 30 hours a week requirement to this - why does it fail? --SB[/quote] Because, unless I am misreading your barebones approach to redistribution, there is absolutely no cash incentive for anyone to do anything more demanding than minimal skill jobs. While SOME may continue in their current high stress/responsibility/risk occupations, there is no way that even they will function at the same level that they did prior to the income redistribution. Forget about what that would mean in terms of the value of education and training...yours would surely be a path to an even dumber America. Given that that we are yet to see an economic system that does away with hierarchy, no matter how many varations of "egalitarian" they attach to its label, you would unavoidably see (to paraphrase Rand, since we are dipping into the fringe arguments she dispatches so well) an aristocracy of pull (influence, favours, etc) replacing the much more transparent and efficient one of money. In short, you are begging for economic stagnation that would make France look dynamic by comparison, since at the very least they retain some measure of income inequality. The difference being that the US in such a position would mean the rest of the world goes to hell. That is, totally ignoring the issue of the amount of confiscation of private funds that such a plan would require, and what it would mean to have virtually all the wealth locked in at the government's disposal. And the "never going to fucking happen in America no matter how you sell it and how many commie immigrants you turn into voters" factor.[/quote]