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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday February 17 2018, @03:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-would-rivest-do? dept.

£10,000 proposed for everyone under 55

The government should give £10,000 to every citizen under 55, a report suggests.

The Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) said it could pave the way to everyone getting a basic state wage.

The idea sees two payments of £5,000 paid over two years, but certain state benefits and tax reliefs would be removed at the same time.

The RSA said it would compensate workers for the way jobs are changing.

The money would help to steer UK citizens through the 2020s, "as automation replaces many jobs, climate change hits and more people face balancing employment with social care", the report said.

Royal Society of Arts.

Also at The Guardian and CNBC.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2018, @06:20AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2018, @06:20AM (#639630)

    When you're being creative, do you have a separate Ownership Class that makes all the decisions about e.g. how you produce and what will be done with the profits?
    Would such an arrangement make you crazy when you do all the work?

    If so, I would call you Anti-Capitalist.
    An Anti-Capitalist is a Leftist.

    N.B. Profit, markets, growth, and ownership of stuff are NOT exclusive to Capitalism;
    top-down economic systems|ownership models are exactly what Capitalism is.

    ...and a 1-man operation with no employees is not Capitalist.
    A defining feature of Capitalism is exploiting the labor of others.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday February 18 2018, @07:26AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 18 2018, @07:26AM (#639647) Journal

    When you're being creative, do you have a separate Ownership Class that makes all the decisions about e.g. how you produce and what will be done with the profits?

    If you're truly creative, then you are part of that "Ownership Class" rather than just whining about the "Ownership Class".

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2018, @07:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2018, @07:44AM (#639649)

    There are people who call the tune. They are those who pay the piper.

    In olden times, if you were a galant composer stroking the egos of the big knobs, they were the local king, or duke, or cardinal, or whatever. If you were a more demotic type, they were the people holding weddings and parties and funerals. The same applies, with a few modifications, to painters and poets, potters and players. Some artists had independent means of support, which meant that they then were paying for their own art's creation.

    The question of an Ownership Class doesn't enter into it. The existence of an Ownership Class is the wrong model for this situation. What you're talking about is patronage, and the audience, whether they're pontiffs or peasants.

    Zooming forward in time, it goes the same way with different faces. Artists do billboards for faceless corporations and filthy lucre, or they smear themselves with blood on their own dime (or the public's, if the NEA has a blood smearing grant going).

    I can't speak for anyone else, but I take commissions cheerfully, and do my best. I'm quite happy with this, even when it means that someone is paying me to do what they want. So call me a capitalist stooge.

    However, you seem to be confused about what capitalism is. You may be better off checking your definitions so that you can get in touch with what other people are actually talking about, because all those mom-and-pop shops trying to accumulate capital are pretty darned capitalist.

    ... wait, reading some other crap you apparently posted, forget it. You don't want to know, and you don't care how wrong you are. It's cool, bro. We all do our own performance art called Life.