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by malloryerik 3387 days ago
Very interesting, thanks.

As I'm sure you've been thinking, it seems important because of the looming threat of human labor becoming an obsolete means for the satisfactory distribution of wealth and necessities throughout society.

Do you have any other thoughts about how to address this problem?

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I don't think humans adding value with their time, and selling it on the market will ever stop. This has been a misplaced fear for thousands of years, yet we work just as hard as ever. Technology just makes us more productive. So will robots.

The argument for the LVT/BI is that it is not a benefit or a welfare payment, but should be view as a basic human property right. Without which, we are not free.

The LVT really only means we would all be equal share landlords of the value derived from scarce resources supplied for free by nature/god. Basic Income/Public spending is that equal share.

Without that, humans cannot share this Earth as equals, thus will not have taken the final step from being savages to truly civilized beings.

Yes, it really is that big a deal;)