re: #203 Teddy’s Person

People shouldn’t HAVE to work. People should WANT to work. Sharing in the labor of building and maintaining a society because it benefits everyone should be desirable, not forced. It shouldn’t be something we do because we’ll die otherwise. 2/11

— MadLori (@madlori) July 23, 2019

Ok, that may sound all good, but I propose that this really goes against our nature.

We’re barely beyond flinging poo at each other from the limbs of trees.

It may sound all nice to believe in an egalitarian society with no fear of losing healthcare and shelter, but even in the most successful fictional representation of that, Star Trek, presents that idea as a consequence of (1) unlimited energy, and (2) replication machines.

We have neither.

As I get older I worry about my retirement, the fact that I underprepared (in my carefree youth, why worry about old age?), and how all this works out for everyone else too.

In the end I think the idea of a basic income is a sort of a public fall-back position from using words that few politicians will want to utter from their lips - “raise taxes”.