> >
> > "The proposal I'm making has been called "Basic Income" by its advocates
> > (Phillipe van Parijs, for one).
> >
> > I'm not familiar with the specific proposal but I think you are
>certainly
> > onto something. Because money is already a universal contract
Not in the legal sense.
I think that,
> > basically, it can have more terms added to it. Some amount of credit
>money
> > should go hand-in-hand with citizenship. Whether it should be an income
>or
> > a credit or an outright grant, I can't say at the moment, however, I
>think
> > it should likely be a credit rather than an income.
Bruce Ackermann has proposed that we should all get a grant of some large sum as a sort of birthright to invest as we see fit.
The income could be a
> > revenue stream from the investment of the credit. That would make the
> > government the bank/investment bank for the nation, rather than a giant,
> > national dole.
I am not sure what this last means.
jks
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