the problem with a system that basically depends on government to support them is the dependency. i think about the universal basic income idea and consider it valid to bring up, due to reality, but what happens - i bring this up because it's possible, not to just focus on the negative, but this is part of the foundation - if food runs out somehow? food, or other resources? does everyone still get stuff? or would a group that was pulling the weight decide to fuck the others? i know that i would certainly fuck others, if things became scarce. i would expect others to, as well. not necessarily just throw them to the wolves...i'd do what i could (what was practical), but really, the only way we deserve anything from anyone else, follows if-then; if i am valuable to these people, then maybe i deserve something from them. if it is of value to them that they helped me, for their own well-being in whatever way, then
they deserve, for themselves, to do the right thing- whatever is right to them, but i do not think i deserve anything from a random stranger, other than, again, from their perspective- maybe they deserve to help me out so I don't rob their house (I understand), or so that eventually I might reciprocate, which is pretty much the only reason we should help anyone. even if you simply identify with "good", you don't do good for people so they can do bad. you do good- hoping that they pay it forward, to create a better circle, starting from you. i think this is where basic income has it right, and i think it should be tried, or something like it- some bringing up of people around us, should be done, so we have much less distance to fall, and so we can ascend. but we need to mind reality. if there is scarcity, those pulling the weight, and providing the most value, will have the most power to hold onto what few resources are there. the "parasites", and people who do work that can be discarded for a time- feasibly, will probably be cut off.
and this is one reason why i am wary of left-ideas. i value independence. i do understand that we have to have others around us. also with that, i think we are more set up for smaller bands. our instincts like altruism were geared less for the other tribe. in the time these things developed, most people you saw were probably a "cousin", and altruism benefited the group (which you share a lot of DNA with, in a similar configuration, so helping them
is helping you, biologically - this can be said to be for all humans, but less the more distantly related). i certainly have more issue sharing resources with groups that would more naturally be in hostile competition with me. and in the case of scarcity, and no government, this is what i consider, because i know i'm not the only one who feels this way. no, it wouldn't be racial, either. but that would factor in. racial, religious, class, and perhaps simply proximity.
if it werent for the parasites thers would be more funds available to help those who need it.
I think with a healthier society, though, there would be fewer parasites. People don't like to sit on their ass all the time, especially when they find something that they are passionate about, or enjoy. I think the goal of this basic income is making less people disabled by circumstances... basically working to increase the health of society.
