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[–]dilatory_tactics 2 points3 points  (7 children)

Have you considered calling it and structuring it as a dividend rather than income?

Giving people an ownership stake in the wealth, resources, and technology of a nation and of our species, and having that wealth pay a dividend, has different implications both psychologically and from a resource-limitation perspective than "basic income," which makes people out to be parasites.

Wealthy people who live off of wealth dividends are fine, but our species hates people who are painted as parasites.

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    [–]dilatory_tactics 1 point2 points  (5 children)

    They could issue stock in a single corporation, let's call it "government," which happens to have a stake in various technologies and natural resources, not to mention the wellbeing of the nation itself. Why should any citizen not have an ownership stake in that?

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      [–]dilatory_tactics 1 point2 points  (3 children)

      There's way too much ideological baggage in your view for me to singlehandedly unpack and refute.

      Instead, just take every statement that you made and then think the opposite.

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        [–]dilatory_tactics 0 points1 point  (1 child)

        There's no ideological baggage here.

        LOL

        You lack basic human understanding. You should work on that before you start opining on anything else.