The point is what exactly?

They still aren’t “wrong people”

The people OP is talking to are just as valid as data points as these happy people.

These “you’re talking to the wrong people” answers are stupid.

There are plenty of both happy and unhappy marriages.

If you truly shuffle a deck of cards, you are likely to come up with a permutation that has never existed before.

The human genome is infinitely more complex than a deck of cards.

These are interesting to me, I never got a chance to experience this stuff myself. I have only 1 ex and it was from a relatively short relationship in high school, I got married to the second girl I ever dated and we’re still married decades later.

That first girl did cheat on me, so that sucked, but we never spoke again and I have no idea where she even is at this point.

but not the fork…

I would extend that concept to land itself.

Land should be nominally “owned” by all citizens of a country, and leased to specific people on an ongoing basis with similar rights to use it as currently, but without the right to “sell” it. You can choose to stop leasing it, and lease somewhere else instead.

Then the proceeds of that should be used to fund the UBI.

I mean it’s pretty obvious that people don’t tend to stop working.

All you have to do is look at groups of people who either don’t need income. Take a look at retired people for example, and you see many of them doing something productive with at least part of their time.

They may choose to do things that aren’t a paid job, like childcare for grand children, taking care of a home, or volunteering, but those are still work in my opinion.

Hell my own grandmother retired from being a grocery cashier for 40 years, then got bored and went back to work for another 5 years because she liked being social (it was a smaller town where she knew most of the customers).

The top 10 wealthiest people in the world only have a fortune of around 1.8 Trillion dollars.

The estimated global personal wealth for everyone in the world is around 450 Trillion dollars.

The top 10% of the world controls a massively disproportionate amount of wealth, but definitely not the top 10 people/families.

My wife tries to be a good mother, and much of it she does extremely well, but then she goes and makes some extremely illogical decision that have no basis in reality. I support her to show a united front in front of the kids, but the kids aren’t stupid and have figured out that it isn’t coming from me and are starting to resent her.

She’s always been like this, and it’s just something I’ve understood and accepted as part of the package that she is. The kids didn’t choose it though so it’s tough to understand why this happens.

When I say illogical, I mean things like they’re not allowed to go swimming at indoor pools. Outdoor pools or the lake are fine though. I have never been given a reason for this, it only started during/after covid.

Specific video games are banned for violence, despite other more violent or graphic games being approved. Usually just because they asked at a bad time, and instead of changing her mind later she just holds the line.

I’ve talked to her about it. She ain’t budging.

Sorry for the rant.

Arrrrrr

I have given more thought to what I would change my name to if I was trying to hide as a criminal than I have for if I switched genders.

I’d argue home assistant with some smart LEDs and a few sensors would be great.

Having a bulb that let’s you know the outside temperature/weather when you’re getting dressed in the morning is neat. Having a dimming pattern for sleeping time. Tons of other really simple stuff available too.

I mean, the text on a website isn’t the problem for not being able to use 56k.

It’s only images and video that take up space, the libraries used on websites are all cached at this point so that’s hardly relevant to ongoing usage of a website.

All of those are part of capitalism. Even most homesteading these days requires significant purchased inputs.

Precious metals, crypto, and anything else that’s an investment asset is quite literally the epitome of capitalism.

You really need a better economic education. You sound just as dumb as the people complaining about communism without knowing what that is either.

A proper Land value tax is a way of preventing owners from making any money off the appreciation of the value of land while still being profitable to construct or renovate if it adds value. It significantly reduces if not outright eliminates housing as an investment.

Land value taxes only apply to the value of the land itself, not the buildings, and therefore desirable areas with high land value taxes have a significant incentive to sell and be redeveloped with density which spread a that tax among a larger number of tenants.

The biggest downside is that it completely destroys existing equity. Which is both how it makes everything affordable again, and is also likely why it won’t pass as a policy for many years.

Currency isn’t the problem, and you really need to keep that concept separate from the issues that happen within Capitalism.

Currency is just a convenient method to measure and exchange resources.

Very few people desire an allocated home and weekly rations of flour, chicken, and butter. If you instead give them a list of things they can choose from, and assign ratios and a limit for total resources, all you’ve done is create a new currency.

I disagree, rent and price controls are not the correct tool.

Land value taxes are the correct method to solve that issue.

“UBI Free” doesn’t make sense. Everyone gets a UNIVERSAL basic income.

If you mean there would be areas of major metros where people who are not employed cannot live, those already exist.

I’m always happy to hear suggestions of alternate systems for resource allocation that do not involve capitalism. What do you propose?