tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post116308924061822971..comments2023-10-29T10:32:36.914-04:00Comments on Philosophy, et cetera: Proxy Policy WarsRichard Y Chappellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16725218276285291235noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post-1163322268444461722006-11-12T04:04:00.000-05:002006-11-12T04:04:00.000-05:00Some egalitarians might favour payments to be made...Some egalitarians might favour payments to be made conditional on one's inability to use those resources effectively. But the result isn't an <I>Unconditional</I> Basic Income, by definition. And of course I'm no egalitarian...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642011.post-1163274566720865662006-11-11T14:49:00.000-05:002006-11-11T14:49:00.000-05:00I notice that in this consumer society I can live ...I notice that in this consumer society I can live at a standard equal to a person on a higher income for much less money. As a result of there being a wide range of goods with various prices and no major difference in actual quality and the potential to allocate money amongst these things.<BR/><BR/>One could argue on a "universal income sort of basis that those other people should be paid a higher income than me (and in general those who spend more money to get the same thing) because while their monetary income would be the same that would only be a trivial sort of equality.<BR/><BR/>Also from a futurist point of view - I think while the govt cannot out-guess the market in many areas at present in the future it probably will be able to in almost all areas (due to the massive increase in computing power and modeling). At some point the sum of the actions of 6 billion people will be no match for the (eventually, maybe around 2040 or so, in theory) vastly greater computing power of the world's biggest computer.Geniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11624496692217466430noreply@blogger.com