TheEncogitationer

Unseen,

The point being made wasn’t that businesses raised prices because market forces forced them to but that some businesses raised prices behind a false claim or false impression that they had to. The operative descriptor being “false.”

Business A watches business B raise prices because their supplier is experiencing problems acquiring inven…

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Unseen and onyangomakagutu,

Kyle Kulinski has it all wrong. Not only was there stimulus paid for by inflating the currency via The Federal Reserve, but the Federal Government also subsidized companies payrolls and added massive new benefits of food and Over-The-Counter drugs to existing Medicare/Medicaid benefits. Also, the Biden Administration…[Read more]

Unseen,

Thanks for admitting what I was about to point out: Your concept of work seems to be involved in being a cog in the wheels of business and industry. One has to wonder how many worthwhile things are NOT being created or are NOT happening because someone is tied down 40+ hours a week to some form of mind-numbing drudgery.

Care to…

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Jake,

Enco there is clearly value or meaning that is attached to work. Work work work. Wok like dis. Talk like dat. How we derive meaning as we go around the merry go round will redound to the ground as those with a cornucopia astound.

Work is how we all get a piece in the cornucopia. It provides the worker with a paycheck, the customer or…[Read more]

Unseen,

Who are these hordes of people who won’t work if they get a check?

FDR and LBJ created multiple generations of these.

How do you define “work”? Does it only include a traditional “job,” or managing one’s investment portfolio?

Does work not include gardening, babysitting, caregiving, cooking, gardening, shopping, housekeepin…

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Jake,

All right. I’m sorry for the case of mistaken identity, though I still contend that a human life of good things devoid of work is it’s own variety of delusion. Even retirees who can afford to not work still sweat over their investments and like exerting themselves on hobby farms or cleaning the boat at the local slip.

Jake,

Guy in that vid is slightly unhinged. Don’t ya think?

Yes, and on this thread, you said you produced this video. :

Is spirituality minus the spirit still spiritual?

We can safely say that this is the modern version of Memorex and not live, but is that you or are you just “friendly Charles M…[Read more]

Unseen,

Even without threats like this, mega-size retail stores and malls need a precinct of armed security with arrest powers just to deal with non-work-a-day riff-raff who loot and trash the places and try making the places into sets for the latest Karen or WorldStar video.

Target should put out notice in all media that if customers don’t…[Read more]

Unseen,

I’ve addressed the bulk of the purposes for U.B.I. above and showed how U.B.I. doesn’t achieve them. As for the first and the last, U.B.I. wouldn’t relieve poverty if it raises the costs of goods and services through taxation and inflation of the currency. It just raises the bar for what the poverty level would be after prices have…[Read more]

Jake,

I thought you said were G-time Johnny:

Unseen,

This handsome, attractive, articulate black man could be the GOP’s Obama.

You do know how this sounds, right? You know, like that drooling, mumbling, doddering fool that’s our current President? 😁

My reply to Tim Scott is that, yes, it’s wonderful that you came out of poverty and more Citizens can do the same if Government keeps it’…[Read more]

Jake,

Enco you are producing a lot of text and very little to no substance.

You are wonderful at avoiding issues.

The subject in part has been work along with the possible effects AI would have on it. I’ve worked til I’m blue in the breasts talking about it without even doing a purple nurple.🟣🟣

And what is up with this?

Look, I’m not the o…

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Unseen,

As I said, objections are irrelevant without a specific proposal to object to. Once a specific proposal is made, specific objections would follow and perhaps adjustments and accommodations made to meet them.

The mere and whole premise of government taxing or inflating the currency to pay people to merely exist is objectionable. No…[Read more]

Jake,

The analogy to our forbears or primitive or subsistence humans is inapposite. Of course they had to work! But there was a division of labor that was more equitable. There was a more communal ethos. The individual was beholden to the group and vice versa. Equating work then with work now is misleading.

🎶”Can it be that it was all so simple…[Read more]

Unseen,

Universal basic income (UBI) is a government program where every adult citizen receives a set amount of money regularly to alleviate poverty and replace other need-based social programs that require greater bureaucratic involvement. (from a Google search)

So, while it would generally alleviate the most destitute sort of poverty, its…

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Unseen,

Unless you mean something like living involves work (counting eating, breathing, shitting, shouting out orders to servants, for example), OF COURSE people can avoid work by having others do work for them.

This is not evading the necessity for work in producing life’s necessities. This is just delegating the work to someone else via…[Read more]

Unseen,

Don’t confuse the Covid shutdowns with what UBI would be like. Conservatives seem to think that without a kick in the butt, the default human condition is sitting on one’s butt watching TV while eating bonbons or Doritos while smoking pot.

People doing great things in their evenings and weekends would be free to do it all day long and…

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Jake,

Ackshuyally, Lenin didn’t first say that, but Paul in 2 Thessalonians 3:10, and was a variation on a Jewish proverb. Trotsky, however, did say about Soviet Communism: “The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced with a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.”

Either way, work is unavoidable. The only question…[Read more]