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   @sinbad @psychicparrot42 it's a tinfoil hat you share with some pretty heavyweight economists and political philosophers, so there's that

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     @psychicparrot42 This gets dangerously close to tin foil hat territory but I've come to the conclusion that keeping people as reliant on unstable jobs they don't like just to pay for essentials like housing/food/medicare is 100% intentional. It's much easier to control people who are anxious and dependent than people who are happy and free

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     PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷 (psychicparrot42@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 19:36:55 JST PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷

     In my opinion, the answer to being a creative and to staying alive *shouldn't* be for us to get better at the business side, but instead for there to be a guaranteed livable basic income for everyone. It would not only lift people out of poverty, but allow us all to explore and fulfill our potential. There is *more* than enough money sitting dormant to do it, too. Just a relatively small tax on the rich could easily pay for a much better society that puts humans first, rather than corporations.