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   Dhu on Gate to Jos Boersema   
   Re: Is there a roadmap to revival?   
   20 Sep 20 16:20:34   
   
   From: campbell@neotext.ca   
      
   On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 12:53:35 +0000, Jos Boersema wrote:   
      
   >> want to implement policies like universal basic income   
   >   
   > A disaster of a plan. Universal Basic Income (UBI) doesn't work,   
   > literally.  Even the old Communists never thought of something so   
   > extreme:   
   > getting money for nothing. UBI can justifyably be called “Super   
   > Communism”. It is well beyond the centrally planned system of the old   
   > Communists,   
      
   The Commies "Guaranteed Employment".  That meant that people had a Right   
   to be useful to others, and if your ability only extended to sweeping the   
   street clean in front of your house, that was your job.   
      
   UBI is the Bread part of Bread and Circuses: it provides for no   
   consideration of the individual by Society.   
      
   Dhu   
      
      
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