Piero Bosio Social Web Site Personale

@codinghorror @poundquerydotinfo This is not hyperbole: if we don’t figure out how to tax billionaires (or find another way to slow their enrichment), democracy is going to die, and none of the impending ecosystem catastrophes will be prevented or even substantially ameliorated. The growth in their wealth and therefore power is breaking our societies. It’s the number one problem we have to solve, because we can’t solve anything else until we do.

@codinghorror @aeischeid

That’s a bit of a head-scratcher for me. Most proposed UBI systems’ design claw it back through tax so that people above a certain income effectively get little no benefit from it.

Meanwhile, means-testing *inevitably* becomes a tool of ideological control. You start with the best of intentions, but sooner or later someone says “you don’t deserve support if you live in a way I don’t approve of.” I live in the UK, and I would regard the recent political chaos around the child benefit cap as a perfect example. If you subtract the industrial parasites from the system, you’ll still have that problem to deal with.