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[-] notfromhere@lemmy.one 2 points 3 months ago

Basically ration it. Citizen #1346733 each month is allowed:

  • two loaves of bread (any ingredient makeup as individuals have individual needs)
  • Standard Issue: house credit
  • Standard Issue: water credit
  • Standard Issue: electric credit
  • etc.

Standard Issue Credits are expected to cover the complete cost of the median citizen’s usage. Citizens can pool credits to afford larger houses, e.g., families of four would have 4x credits to spend.

This is extremely easy to implement with (evil, no good) blockchain, have government issue them, citizens spend them, merchants resell them back to government.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Agreed, but sounds more like socialism with authoritarian overtones. I don't see why we'd need UBI

[-] notfromhere@lemmy.one 2 points 3 months ago

I agree with the socialism part, but I’m not picking up on the authoritarian overtones. I would want a system like this to be flexible to meet the basic living needs of each person and would view it as more of a stepping stone to a post-scarcity society.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

The whole social credit thing sounds like something that could easily be taken away depending on your political beliefs

[-] notfromhere@lemmy.one 2 points 3 months ago

That’s where things like decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) and smart contracts could come into play. Maybe we could start implementing this without ever involving the government at all.

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