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by MLgulabio 187 days ago
Around the world, every country should be allowed to make 'money' for specific cases like for teacher salaries, ... so that most people are able to work for the state or for our community.

Everyone works less, everyone works better, we will then see how much humans we still need.
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rjdj377dhabsn 187 days ago
So.. communism? That hasn't worked out too great in the past.
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MLgulabio 187 days ago
Uncontrolled capitalism hasn't worked either. Controlled capitalism brought us were we are today: Huge inequality around the globe especially in 3th world countries like the USA and destruction of the whole ecosystem we live in.

Communism didn't look great next to capitalism (east europe vs. west europe) but those people were also happy.

My idea is not communism though, its a 'if you do beneficial things for society, we have resources for it'. If you are teaching kids, we the planet have resources for you.

If you take care of kids, we the planet, have resources for you.

Lets call it Civic Duty Dividend or Care Standard or Public Service Money.

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rjdj377dhabsn 187 days ago
> If you take care of kids, we the planet, have resources for you.

That sounds nice, but who is going to decide exactly which behaviors to reward and by how much?

To avoid grift and corruption, we should probably have everyone vote on it in some kind of democratic process, right? Well that's basically what we have today with municipal elections, and looks like the consensus is we actually don't want to pay teachers all that much.

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MLgulabio 187 days ago
We already talking about a hyposisis that AI replaces workers.

I don't think i have the choice of changing the world with a hn comment.

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integralid 187 days ago
>Communism didn't look great next to capitalism (east europe vs. west europe) but those people were also happy

Which people were happy? Nobody hates communism more than Eastern Europeans. I don't know a single elderly (i.e. lived through communism) person in my country who doesn't hate communism. I think you have a rose tinted view of how communism worked out on Europe.

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MLgulabio 187 days ago
Plenty of people were 'content' enough and had a normalish childhood.

I don't want to romantesize it though.

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