| "Postcapitalism is possible because of three major changes information technology has brought about in the past 25 years. First, it has reduced the need for work," The need for work hasn't reduced, it's just changed. The issue is that someone will need to be doing the work and the people doing the work aren't going to put up with giving the majority of their pay to the rest of society (that don't need to work) for very long. This idea will eventually lead to total wealth distribution and then the issue will be how you decide to split up the money. Do we then need to have control on the number of kids a person can have? How about risky behavior (so health care costs aren't that high)? Also, who decides how it's split up? All of the articles about basic income and 'post capitalism' only take into account what will happen in the very beginning, which might seem like it's working. They never discuss the long-term where 3 generations of families are living off of the system and the continued dependence of more and more people. What happens when the number of people on basic income vastly outnumbers the amount of people working? Will the government force people to work? A revolution? Starvation?? Capitalism is not perfect, but it's the one system that not only brought us the most technology and advancements, but also brought the most people out of poverty. Most of these ideas aren't new. They have been tried and failed and are now just being re-packaged and prettied up into something that seems more palatable. |