Basic Income
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:35 am
Basic Income
Covid, with other pandemics, is the bringer of chaos. The Black Death took anyone and everyone, young and old, and such a mutation of Covid would bring total chaos.
There are three classes of society that must maintain some degree of stability in order to provide their own form of moral or amoral community and state.
What we presently have is a very problematic compromise between those forms of society, creating its own intractable difficulties. The country is vaguely ‘free’ which means it has no essential ethic nor essential personal autonomy. It presently has to be fairly draconian in its regulations in a very complex way.
If we were at least in theory an altruist democracy, we could have a basic income for everyone, at all times. Therefore, in the present crisis those who are self-employed, or in reality serving society as permitted and regulated, would already have a guaranteed adequate income. To balance this, much of the economy would need to be frozen. For the crisis period they would have no mortage, rent, etc, to pay, or owe. Only their day to day living expenses for food etc. It would have to assumed that the government would not have its income from taxation but direct from the Bank of England. The inflationary effects of this limiting its scale.
The other classes of society would tend, either to throw the lower classes to the wolves, or leave everyone to manage as maybe.
Covid, with other pandemics, is the bringer of chaos. The Black Death took anyone and everyone, young and old, and such a mutation of Covid would bring total chaos.
There are three classes of society that must maintain some degree of stability in order to provide their own form of moral or amoral community and state.
What we presently have is a very problematic compromise between those forms of society, creating its own intractable difficulties. The country is vaguely ‘free’ which means it has no essential ethic nor essential personal autonomy. It presently has to be fairly draconian in its regulations in a very complex way.
If we were at least in theory an altruist democracy, we could have a basic income for everyone, at all times. Therefore, in the present crisis those who are self-employed, or in reality serving society as permitted and regulated, would already have a guaranteed adequate income. To balance this, much of the economy would need to be frozen. For the crisis period they would have no mortage, rent, etc, to pay, or owe. Only their day to day living expenses for food etc. It would have to assumed that the government would not have its income from taxation but direct from the Bank of England. The inflationary effects of this limiting its scale.
The other classes of society would tend, either to throw the lower classes to the wolves, or leave everyone to manage as maybe.
