David Garcia on Wed, 14 Sep 2016 17:47:38 +0200 (CEST) |
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I agree.. And perhaps David Graeber's well known "bullshit jobs" essay which also looked at the energies that might be released when people were given the economic possibilities to shape their own time and labour. Along with the fear that this possibiliy engenders as "the devil makes work fo idle hands". This might provide one of many starting points for the kind of discussion proposed by Eduard. In Britain before there used to be the "jobseeker's allowance" the name says it all. There used to be the "dole". It wasn't much but there was just about enough to create the space that generated a host of initiatives ("punk" is just one example) that are still a source of subversive energy and not so subversive marketing and tourism. ---------------------------------------------- d a v i d g a r c i a One of the interesting aspects of the Basic income discussion is how this topic that originates from morality and social justice has been hijacked by the libertarians, subverting its purpose into yet another way for the haves to exploit the have-nots and at the same time painting neoliberalism with a social-responsible and caring gloss. To me this seems like a prototype of the way neoliberal thought have poisoned society, like the "efficient government" meme as a nice flag (who doesn't want government to be fficient?) to cover for a program to eradicate government spending that is aimed at thos most in need, except, of course, on subsidies for corporate entities. For libertarians efficiency seems one of the arguments in support of a basic income. <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: