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As living costs (excluding medical) tend to decrease over time as people inherit or are looked after by others, should individual income vary throughout life?
Including for people who may die suddenly, e.g. from distracted driving?

Either everyone is worthy of having their needs met OR they are not.

If there are other rewards to incentivise pro-social, sustainable behaviours,
Then we need to implement them.
If we can’t yet, then we need to create more favorable conditions to do so.

Until then, the dogshit I need to memorise from the Life in the UK Test is masturbatory bootlicker propaganda.

Have ‘fun’ https://lifeintheuktests.co.uk/life-in-the-uk-test/

https://nebula.tv/videos/citynerd-this-is-the-thing-that-will-destroy-our-cities/

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For fucks’ sake. I don’t want to presume to know better than trained economists, nor can I ignore bullshit assumptions.

What, precisely, is wrong with literally every person receiving the same amount of money?
(Maybe proportional up to like age 13 or something, then smaller incremental increases up to the adult rate.)

“It might not produce a functional society if a new engineering graduate and a senior engineering lead doing good work for years, in a high-stress job, were given the same amount of money.” (Summary, not exact words.)

Why? Is the job *necessarily* highly stressful?
Could the job not be split up or involve shared decision-making with shared accountability?

Does choosing to sacrifice your wellbeing make someone more “worthy” of a higher quality of life? Even if there are more effective options available?

https://nebula.tv/videos/citynerd-this-is-the-thing-that-will-destroy-our-cities/

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Also, isn’t capitalism literally just a complicated pyramid scheme?

Like, the gd point is to “extract value” at each stage, as much as possible, for as long as other people let you get away with it.

I prefer my #MagicWandWishList and its various ideas that don’t actually require a magic wand. But anyway, what am I missing? Cuz I gotta be missing something(s), I’m sure.

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https://writingexplained.org/inquiry-vs-enquiry-difference Cuz I had to look it up so fuck it.

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