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People want to be useful, and people don't want to do the same thing for the rest of their lives. These are statistically true generalizations.

UBI would allow people to expand their career paths since basic survival would not be on the line. Personally I've got minor health issues from being in front of a computer too much, would absolutely love switching it up with a more physicaly demanding job if I had UBI to make sure a drop in wages wasn't threatening my family's basic survival. This also assumes universal healthcare.

"You cannot have both an opt-in working class and an opt-in nonworking class and have a healthy society."

So I agree, but I do not think it would become a real problem. If it does become a problem we could implement a lottery system that swaps workers out every so often.

Liar

That is a poor argument and not even really correct. He is advocating for higher taxes on the wealthy which would indeed take away from his own wealth. You can't expect people to sacrifice themselves completely to help others when the necessary changes are systemic and not individual.

Universal healthcare and education at all levels. Strong worker protections, good safety nets. Return to mid 1900s tax rates on the rich, fund the IRS to make sure corporations and ultra wealthy pay their taxes.

We have multiple successful models to look at where capitalism is reigned in by all the above.

You have been eaten by a grue!

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No thanks

The problem is that the "reason" was simply being associated with someone. We need to creste privacy laws, this assumption thst it is OK to go through someone's personal life merely for being in someone else's contact list is unethical.

There should be compelling evidence, and after some short time period say > 5 years the person should be notified of the investigation.

We already know what it is, the centralized ownership of news media. Billionaires do not want Sanders to bring their taxes in line with reality. Thus the corrupt political elites and the corporate owned media marginalize him every chance they get.

Just part of the panopticon, they are forcing you to make it super easy for governments to monitor you. Tracking email addresses and correlating amongst shared names makes for more false negatives, tie it to a phone number and you're doing their work for them.

Money is an artificial construct used by humans to facilitate trading their labor amongst each other in order to get what they need to survive.

Arguments about how expensive things are make no sense if we restructure our society where money is only half the equation. The labor required to provide food, health, and housing is incredibly small compared to the overall economy.

People want to be useful, and people want more than just a place to live and food to eat.

The real danger would be in creating a system that stifles the free market side of the economy and leaves people stuck in basic assistance hell with no way of working to improve their lives. Worrying about the costs of providing basic assistance to all is actually the least important bit.

"As long as data is not de-aggregated and de-anonymized there is no issue here"

Awfully hopeful there.

"The other political statements and comparisons he makes, well are unrelated and sincerely looks like political propaganda to me."

I would say the same about your assertions of innocence and presumption that the data can not be de-anonymized. If the "propaganda" is supporting user privacy I'd say you're on the wrong side of this discussion.

Some weird narcissism you're selling to convince people they shouldn't care about privacy. Immediately refuted by everyone's real world experience with visible privacy violations.

"If surveillance helped me meet my customer demands better, then by all means, watch me like a hawk. If it's just there as automated paperwork for the project manager then buzz off."

This is the primary problem. Managers exist because they're supposed to know the business and manage projects. Normalizing surveillance across society in the name of efficiency or profit is already sending us down a dark path.

I guess we'll have to legislate privacy and jail anyone violating it.

And this is how fascism spreads. Thanks EstoniaTechLead for trying to seduce people into giving up their morality.

These are bad actions but for "the greater good"? You don't get to have it both ways. Protecting yourself without torturing people is 100% feasible and your argument should only be heard in a war crimes tribunal from the defendant'a lawyer to ease their sentence.

Morality isn't hard, but the implementation can be.