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Day 221: Are Humans Equal? - Equality and Human Rights – Part 2
This Blog is a continuation to: Day 219: Equality and Human Rights– it is suggested to read the previous post for context. In the last blog we ended with Plato’s assessment that humans were essentially...
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Day 222: Justice and Human Rights - Part 3 - Substantive Justice
This blog post is a continuation to:Day 218: Justice and Human RightsDay 220: Justice and Human Rights - Part 2Substantive Justice as part of Legal Justice has to do with the rules as laws are just or...
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Day 245: Living Income Guaranteed and Equal Currency
The ideal of free market in terms of globalization in being able to buy from anyone and sell to anyone - is based within the idea that: one should be able to get access to the best products and...
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Day 246: Green Economics – the Newest Fad?
Reading through a magazine, I came across an article on how traditional neoclassical economics is just not up to the task of providing an effective system of distribution for the world – with which I...
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Day 247: Only in a Broken System does Misery equal Profit
Growing up and living in a First World Country where your Basic Human Rights are actually ‘met’ (albeit through considerable compromises) – you are made sure to be reminded of the many places and many...
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Day 248: Q&A on Living Income Guaranteed
Here follow questions and perspectives about the Living Income Guaranteed proposal - from the Discussion Forum at basicincome.me.It would be very helpful if all the essential information on your LIG...
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Day 250: Nozick's Entitlement Theory of Justice - what are we REALLY entitled...
Robert Nozick is best known for his work ‘State, Anarchy and Utopia’ in which he argues against patterned principles of justice and in favour of an entitlement theory of justice (2013:26). We will...
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Day 250: Economics Nobel Prize reduced to Laughingstock
“The award was for their work on the pricing of financial assets. Together they concluded that predicting the price of stocks and bonds in the short term is virtually impossible. But they showed it is...
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Day 251: Living Income Guaranteed and Market Mechanics
This blog is in response to a comment made on Day 250: Economics Nobel Prize reduced to Laughingstock : “Economics is about, or should be about, how to employ the available means in such a way that no...
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Day 252: The Rich Be Cursed, The Rich Be Blessed
This image of Harris Rosen has been circulating Facebook. I find it amusing to read the comments made under it. On the one hand society is angered by the rich for appropriating such huge amounts of...
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Day 253: Living Income Guaranteed and Means Testing
Q: What information will be gathered to determine whether a person can receive a Living Income Guaranteed?A: This question pertains to another question, which is: who will receive a Living Income? The...
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Day 254: Only for the Brave: Living Income Guaranteed and the End of Warfare
Q: Within my studies I touched upon international relations and there is a point I learned about which I see could be a concern regarding the point of the redirection of military budgets.The point is...
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Day 255: How will Companies be Nationalized and What does it Mean? LIG
How will companies be nationalized and do you foresee any resistance?Within LIG, nationalized companies would not be owned by the government – they would be owned by each person of the population...
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Day 256: Will LIG result in a Centrally Planned Economy with a Coercive...
This blog-post is a response to a Facebook Comment made in relation to the Living Income Proposal."Government is still government. Centrally coerced power nonetheless."I suggest reading the blog ‘How...
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Day 257: Living Income Practicality
Q: Will LIG result in the replacement of jobs by machines?A: The foundation of LIG is to provide the necessary access to the living necessities as a human right, therefore if jobs are replaced by...
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Day 258: Will Implementation of LIG put more Stress on the Ecosystem by...
Q: "When LIG is implemented and people, who were mostly outcasts, become able to fully participate in the system we can probably expect a huge increase in consumption putting more stress on the already...
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Day 259: Living Income Guaranteed and Raising Children
Q: "I have two children - One child is now 24 and the other is 6. When I was raising my 24-year old, I worked all of time and because of this I had to leave that child in the care of others until they...
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Day 260: Democratization - Put your Money where your Mouth is with LIG - Pt1
Democracy - derived from the Greek words 'demos' (the people) and 'kratia' (power, rule) - refers in its most basic sense to 'rule by the people'. Currently the term holds a very positive connotation -...
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Day 261: Democratization - Put your Money where your Mouth is with LIG - Pt2
I ended off the previous blog with the following:"Within allowing such a representative system of politics, we have created a 'gap' between demos and kratia - between the people and the government -...
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Day 262: Democratization - Put your Money where your Mouth is with LIG - Pt3
This blog-post is a continuation of the blogs Day 260: Democratization - Put your Money where your Mouth is with LIG - Pt1Day 261: Democratization - Put your Money where your Mouth is with LIG -...
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