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Would you participate is a social economicc structure such as this?
10-12-2012, 11:59 PM
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Right out of George Orwell's "Animal Farm".

"Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others"

But seriously, here's some of many faults with your proposal:

Where's the incentive to excel? If one gets paid whether they work or not simply because they have intrinsic value "exceeding that of utility", why work? or at least, why work hard. Why should I be a garbage collector when I can be a part time keyboard operator? (or is your government going to force me to be a garbage collector against my will?)

What of scarce or unique resources? There are five houses on the beach, and 100 people who want them. What then, a lottery? You don't think there will be profiteering by the five, or added status for those who have this resource?

Who decides what's important to a society? Would you have professional football players? How about professional broom ball players? I'm not joking. A free market system adjusts supply to demand. How would a socialist system, whose priorities are purely defined by some government bureaucrat, possibly substitute for this?

Those grants your talking about - what if the venture fails. Most business ventures do. Especially ones that have CEOs that have no incentive for profit, since they receive none. How is this grant replaced for the next "equally worthy" recipient?

There's more (many more), but I'm tired and going to bed. The nice one I earned with my skills and hard work.

Re: Additional details - Your added details are contrary to your original statement "Necessary goods and services should be distributed, with absolute equality". Your added detail now paints an internal capitalist economic structure.

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