cgore

Basic Income is literally taking money from people by force of law (and therefore, threat of violence) and giving it to other people, against the first person's will. It is communism and completely antithetical to any reasonable definition of libertarianism. An argument that it's less bad than other forms of government-sponsored theft isn't exactly a solid libertarian argument.

That's kind of missing his point. "Russell's Teapot" is a mental exercise that states the person making the claim that is nonstandard of current thought needs to provide proof. He's suggesting that there IS some way to provide proof perhaps, one way or the other.

My old 1978 Chrysler Cordoba has it behind the license plate in the back, so you can fill up from either side, and so it doesn't interfere with the lines of the car. I think they stopped doing it because rear-end collisions are so common though :(

I don't know about oil, but I thought airplanes were rich people's silly toys at first? And then WW1 happened.

If he actually manages to halt massive importation of cheap labor, which directly competes with these people, both less-educated rural whites and less-educated urban blacks will quickly see wage increases. If you have tons of under-educated poor people without jobs, the last thing you want to do is import more.

I think that too is on the company. A good one-level-up manager will check up on their underlings, the managers in question, and figure out who's good and bad and resolve the situation.

Wow, a year ago. Reading the title made me assume it was just now, and somehow related. Good catch.

I think you're definitely getting at my point. There's the recognition of your inherent freedom of speech in the Bill of Rights, but it is not derived from the piece of parchment, just recognized by it. And if the US Federal Government can't impede that right, why should some random corporation that's never even turned a profit be able to?

Or, you know, we could actually have freedom of speech for everybody. Crazy talk included, whatever your definition of crazy happens to be.

Some banks might use it. It's kind of like if there was a Napster clone in 1995 endorsed by a few record companies.

And I'll pass a law to ban poverty by 2525.

Yeah, and that's exactly my point. Okay, I'll act like an owner. Make me an owner.

I wonder if they are going to release a Mac Pro too, or if this is it.

Student loans are a bad idea. It's debt slavery, plain and simple. And most college degrees are less than useless these days anyway. $100k in student loan debt, and a liberal arts degree from Noname U? You've got a problem.