Waiting for the End of the World by Richard Ross, 2004
Where will you go when the trouble starts? For countless people around the world, the answer is that bomb shelter down in the basement. In fact, people from around the work have been building shelters to protect themselves from catastrophe -- natural disaster, war, nuclear events -- for centuries.
If you know something about Basic Income, you may be aware that 👉one of the first proposals for a Basic Income came from Thomas Paine, hero of the American and French revolutions.
In 1797, after a stint in a French prison, Paine wrote the pamphlet "Agrarian Justice", ⭐️which sets out an argument for taxing land and distributing the proceeds among the population at large as compensation for landlessness.
Paine’s proposal to tax land and distribute the proceeds widely rests on a basic insight from the natural law tradition: namely, the insight that there are two kinds of property, things that are created by human effort, and things that are not.
Things that are not created by human effort — like land and other natural resources — are a common inheritance, and everyone has an equal right to enjoy them.
When a few monopolize the land, the normal remedy is redistribution.
Writing in part for a French audience that had just experienced a bloody revolution, and in part for a English audience that f
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If you know something about Basic Income, you may be aware that 👉one of the first proposals for a Basic Income came from Thomas Paine, hero of the American and French revolutions.
In 1797, after a stint in a French prison, Paine wrote the pamphlet "Agrarian Justice", ⭐️which sets out an argument for taxing land and distributing the proceeds among the population at large as compensation for landlessness.
Paine’s proposal to tax land and distribute the proceeds widely rests on a basic insight from the natural law tradition: namely, the insight that there are two kinds of property, things that are created by human effort, and things that are not.
Things that are not created by human effort — like land and other natural resources — are a common inheritance, and everyone has an equal right to enjoy them.
When a few monopolize the land, the normal remedy is redistribution.
Writing in part for a French audience that had just experienced a bloody revolution, and in part for a English audience that feared revolution, Paine proposed a remedy that was much less disruptive.
Let the landowners keep their land, he said.
Let them simply pay a tax, and let that money be used to compensate the landless and give them some financial security.
Paine proposed that money from the fund be distributed to the elderly and the disabled, plus a disbursement to every young man and woman on turning age 21 to help them start out in life resilience.org/stories/2020-04…
no sun visor to keep the steering wheel from needing asbestos gloves saw some recyclable inventiveness on display as I discovered the dimensions of a paper shopping bag to be apropos
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Those fucking little spineless cunts. Hope somebody straps that fucking emerald mine Karen to one of his rockets and blasts him too mars mastodon.social/@eunews/115673…
When I accidentally stabbed myself with a pencil Right in the meaty bit between my thumb and forefinger Because I turned over the pencil to use the eraser But I fumbled the maneuver And I watched as blood collected in a tidy pool In the palm of my hand I got permission to walk to the nurses office
But halfway there this girl saw my t-shirt With a picture of Lestat from Interview with the Vampire That said “Drink from me and live forever” And this girl, mocking, she said “So if I drink from you will I live forever?” And I just looked away and kept walking But sometimes I still think about
What I should have done Because what I should have done was I should have shown her my hand Looked her straight in the eye Brought my cupped hand up to my lips And drank it
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in reply to earthling • • •'ONE NUCLEAR BOMB
COULD RUIN YOUR WHOLE DAY'
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