What are you even trying to say here? Are you trying to make a point of any sort or just being obnoxious?
What are you even trying to say here? Are you trying to make a point of any sort or just being obnoxious?
My point exactly. I could quite easily imagine my life without ever building a house. And so could everyone else. So your argument doesn’t really work.
Reading books doesn’t build houses
None of these activities produce anything
Yes, I absolutely could. Why not?
Recognition isn’t as important as you make it sound. And most people will hardly start to work out of boredom. There’s plenty of ways to spend your time that are not productive.
In addition, there are plenty of jobs literally nobody wants to do, and consequently, nobody would do under your proposed system.
The difference is that in capitalism, you are compensated for your labour in a different way, with wages. That is sufficient motivation to be productive. It does not make a difference in that regard who owns the final product.
But why would I, as an individual, spend my life learning how to build buildings and then build them if I have no more benefit from doing that than I would from someone else putting in all that work? Surely I’d just do nothing and wait for someone else to do it?
Because someone has to build it. Why would you build something if you couldn’t own it afterwards?
Mega is a million, Giga a billion, so it would actually be a Terabuck
It woulf take years and years to pass such a ban in a significant number of countries - assuming they would ever want to cooperate on this, that is
A lot still do, and that’s where the miners would go
If you destroy Bitcoin, another currency would take its place.
Uhh… what?
15 thousand million million?
= 15 quadrillion USD?
Maybe, maybe not, that really makes no difference here
But the risk isn’t high. Sure, it happens, but for any arbitrary person the chance to be murdered on a date is pretty much 0.
That’s just how it is, no matter if you like it
That’s a bit different though. UBI means people can survive without working, but working will still drastically increase their quality of living.
And sure, you may still work if you had no benefit from it, but would you put in as much time as people do now? And how many other people would?