<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Earlie</span>r, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ said:<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> If we're stuck with capitalism, then I'm for UBI. If we can get out from under capitalism, then I'm not.</span><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Nick added: </font>it is the "triumph" of capitalism to reduce all relationships to money. </div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I wonder if this is not assuming that there is an alternative to what you are calling <i>capitalism</i>. </font><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A</font><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">s </font>uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ points out<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">, co-ops can work on relatively small scales, </font><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">but if we are going to live in groups of larger than ~150 people, how are you imagining that we will arrange interactions without something like money? Even on small scales, how will a collective </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">without money </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">organize itself in anything other than a very static structure? And on larger scales, what is the organizing principle other than power? It's not clear to me how an alternative that </span>uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ is supposing possible will actually work.
uǝlƃ ↙↙↙, would you mind elaborating what you have in mind?</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font><u style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"><br></u></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font><u style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"> </u></font><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:24.75px"> </span>-- Russ Abbott </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 2:17 PM jon zingale <<a href="mailto:jonzingale@gmail.com">jonzingale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Yeah, I think it is safe to say that "huge costs" are a sign of progress in<br>
the same sense that smoke is a sign of fire.<br>
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