Obviously it wouldn't pose any technical problem to put Doug on a publicly
> financed salary. But how would you decide whom to put on the salary and whom
> to reject?
Everyone on; nobody off. And don't call it a "salary;" linking income and labor serves the interests of no one but the capitalists. Every healthy person would do at least enough productive work without the lash of the whip.
Resources are finite, demand infinite.
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The first is true, while the second can be. But it's at least as likely to bite us in the ass through wage-labor as in a public system with some kind of accountability to society as a whole.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."