Comment Re:For new music or old music? (Score 2) 305
You can do that like everyone else. Invest your income.
Why should your children be paid for work you did? No other type of profession gets that, why are "artists" special?
You can do that like everyone else. Invest your income.
Why should your children be paid for work you did? No other type of profession gets that, why are "artists" special?
Assuming there were any good intentions seems awfully hasty...
What? Why would anyone voluntarily report to jail for tax avoidance. Come and get me assholes!
Now what are you going to do in your aggression-free world?
And aren't garnishment and liens aggression? What would you call it today if the US just took things from other countries? Wouldn't that be aggression? Aren't taxes themselves aggression? Taking something from someone - in this case the fruit if their labor - without their permission?
Life is aggression.
LOL, whatever you you, Mr. Internet Badass.
In any of a million ways. Here's a simple one using your civil disobedience: refusing to pay taxes which they believe are unjust.
It's non-violent civil disobedience. How will the rule of law be upheld without the use of aggression by the state?
Wait, so you're saying liberals are better than conservatives and conservatives are merely tolerated, after listing the atrocities committed by liberals?
You're a typical left-wing nutjob. You'll prove to everyone how superior you are even if it kills them.
So when the minority disagrees with the outcome of democracy and simply ignores the law, how does the democracy keep them in line? Asking them nicely to cooperate? Or by using aggression to punish the offenders?
So by being a part of this discussion with you right now, you believe that I've justified forcing someone else to grow my food, sew my clothes, and build my home? Is there any bar too low for your measure of "contribution"?
Those things are currently reimbursed via the free market at exactly the rate they're worth: $0.
Ah, you must be coming from the ridiculous view that consumption is contributing, therefore merely being a consumer and producing nothing is admirable, because being a consumer gives the producers something to do. There are people who do not contribute; they do not produce anything. They only consume. A guaranteed income will increase that segment of people who wish to do nothing but consume. Hell, if I didn't have to actually earn the right to consume food, clothing and shelter I might be tempted to spend my days doing nothing too. Get up when I want, go where I want whenever I want, and let some other poor sap spending his time producing so that I can consume. Until all jobs are eliminated and robots and computers produce everything, there's always somebody required to produce.
Further, your characterization of money as somebody being able to interfere is completely unfounded, and another symptom of your faulty thinking. There's an inherent requirement to produce which is universal and unavoidable, caused by existence as we know it. People need to eat and have shelter from the elements. Needs aren't imposed by people with money, it's biology. Beyond needs, people also have wants. To meet those needs and wants, a person has two choices: produce their own goods, or provide a service to other people who will then provide those goods to you. Money merely abstracts the services you've provided to others. Government interference comes in the form of telling me how I'm allowed to meet my needs and wants (you must purchase product X, but are not allowed to purchase product Y), and then taking an ever larger piece of every exchange of value (when you purchase product X, we get a cut of your labor), so don't blame people with money for that. If people have money, it's because they produced something that others wanted, and have contributed. People without money do not produce. It's that simple. You can argue that the wealthy are disproportionately rewarded for what they produce, but the basic fact remains.
It's perfectly logical for a person to wish for minimal interference and be against consumption without corresponding production. If you can't understand that, it's not my fault.
Nothing you said has any relevance, it's borderline gibberish.
Of course, encryption software could use the evil bit to determine which method to use.
I'm a libertarian because I want to be left the hell alone. Big government exists for the sole purpose of telling me how to live, hence I'm a libertarian.
I loathe free riders because they don't contribute to the system that they're sponging off of. If the system becomes too imbalanced, nobody sane would choose to work for the very minor increase it provides over a guaranteed income, hence no work gets done.
Are these questions relevant, or just trolling?
You're talking about a mincome, basic income, or something of the sort. I'm a libertarian and loathe the idea of people getting free rides, but honestly I don't know if there's any other way society can continue with collapsing in on itself. It would be an interesting experiment if it could be limited in scope, basic living wage income for every adult, government provided health care, then eliminate all other forms of welfare and the minimum wage.
Morons like you always go to the organic argument. Why the hell does it have to be organic? An apple of any kind is healthier and cheaper than potato chips. Full stop.
BLISS is ignorance.