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If you know something about Basic Income, you may be aware that
👉one of the first proposals for a Basic Income came from Thomas Paine, hero of the American and French revolutions.
In 1797, after a stint in a French prison, Paine wrote the pamphlet 
"Agrarian Justice",
⭐️which sets out an argument for taxing land and distributing the proceeds among the population at large as compensation for landlessness.
Paine’s proposal to tax land and distribute the …

Thomas Paine’s 1797 call for a Basic Income: a New Paper Tells the Full Story
You may be aware that one of the first proposals for a Basic Income came from Thomas Paine, hero of the American and French revolutions.

So I was doing some reorg on my home media server and I realized I have my copy of The Matrix Reloaded [hacked] by Doctor M on there but I don’t have Revolutions [hacked] and have NO ideas where it would be.
I’m sure it’ll be easy to find (Narrator: it will not be)
GDI!
😭😭😭

European "socialism" is a compromise wherein the population gets services and, in exchange, the rich are allowed to continue to exist. This compromise developed to save capitalism from the threat of the working class just rising up and just doing it all themselves. Revolutions, it turns out, can be dangerous and may be subverted. It's generally safer, so Europe's working class decided, to accept some exploitation in exchange for not taking that chance.
The the strategy of "point guns at everyone until they comply" was a sustainable strategy, all of Europe would still be absolute monarchies, feudalism would still be the dominant economic system globally, and England would still control most of the land on Earth. Recognizing that this *isn't* the state of the world should give some clues as to how well Yarvin's ideas continue will play out in the real world.
#USPol

The director of IBM's Research Lab has some bold takes on the future of computation.
We're on the cusp of two simultaneous technological revolutions - #AI and #quantum - that will fundamentally change how the world uses computers to solve difficult problems.
There have only been two c…

IBM predicts a computation revolution
Quantum and AI are ushering in a whole new range of algorithmic possibilities, says IBM’s research lead.

I recently had a glimpse of a facsimile of Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres). It's HUGE!
How was it even possible Kepler and Galileo could hide a thing that size from authorities? 😳

Over the past quarter-century, political, legal and economic changes have reshaped the relationship between wealth and political power in America.
Economists say wealth is now more concentrated at the very top than at any time since the Gilded Age.
The tech and market revolutions of recent decades have created riches on an unprecedented scale.
Changing norms on executive compensation and lower-tax policies under Republican and Democratic administrations have helped insul…

It’s not just Trump. Billionaires dominate politics more than ever.
The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.

Unsolicited advice:
Planned events will not bring this down… you need to be louder, more spontaneous, and possibly start burning shit down, like the White House… that’s how revolutions take down Kings. Not planned performances.
#usa #fascism #revolt #freespeech #nokings
https://sfba.social/@SouthBaySwingLeft/115234256017001120

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Johann Strauss II, Johann Strauss Orchestra Of Vienna & Franz Bauer-Theussl:
🎵 Revolutions-Marsch, Op 54
#JohannStraussII #JohannStraussOrchestraOfVienna #FranzBauerTheussl