We know things now that we didn’t know before. In my humble opinion this is a problem that has not been addressed properly.
In draft:
Both religions and science agrees that man came forth from the dust from the earth that the earth in literally and figuratively gave birth to us.
- As its offspring we all, everyone, have an equal non-withdrawal inalienable right to a fair share of the earth (nature) for subsistence, personal survival and personal production (non-destructive but reproducible production).
- In many cases it’s not possible or practical to subsist strictly from your own efforts from nature. So a payment should be made not only for renumeration for the loss or limited access to the commons but as payment for not over indulging and depletion of the commons.
You shouldn’t have to pay someone else for you to survive. And you shouldn’t have to do someone else work to survive. What you do for others and what they do for you should be a choice free from coercion.
Without access to what the Earth produces for production or survival humans and animals, who depend on nature for food and housing, society would be in an indefinite state of coercion.
If you block someone from what they need to survive to force them to do work for you that’s coercion and enslavement. Blocking someone from food causes starvation, that causes long term health issues. Blocking someone from housing is reckless endangerment. Housing brings safety, warmth, storage and rest. Without either is tantamount to a death sentence. If you believe that starvation and reckless endangerment are OK or necessary that makes you a villain. That makes you the bad guy.
Societies can and do and have run without coercion.
- Where you have property you have to have a payment model to cover the cost of those without property. And the limits of property are around an established personal space. And not more than 2 properties. Where extra space is concerned its contracted or expanded as necessary (up to the personal place).
- Societies must include the lunch line ethic for things like basic necessities. You don’t get a second meal while someone else hasn’t had firsts. You don’t get a 2nd house until everyone gets a first.
Notes
Thoughts and opinions are my own. Some ideas from the basic income movement including Karl Widerquist and others.
