"We live in a new world, remade by many forces: the disruptive technological revolution,
brought about by the computer and the internet; the globalisation of trade, migration and communication; a fast-growing worldwide demand running up against the limits imposed by a shrinking pool of natural resources and saturation of our atmosphere; the dislocation of traditional protective institutions, from the family to labour unions, state monopolies and welfare states; and the explosive interactions of these various trends." -- Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght in Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy
Basic Income: An idea whose time has come
Brecht
In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times.
-- Bertolt Brecht
qoute unquote: Friedrich Engels
"In this country, social war is under full headway, everyone stands for himself, and fights for himself against all comers, and whether or not he shall injure all the others who are his declared foes, depends upon a cynical calculation as to what is most advantageous for himself. It no longer occurs to anyone to come to a peaceful understanding with his fellow-man; all differences are settled by threats, violence or in a law-court. In short, everyone sees in his neighbour an enemy to be got out of the way, or, at best, a tool to be used for his own advantage." -- Friedrich Engels, 1845
End Game?
Bush the Younger abused executive power and overstepped constitutional boundaries.Democrats test limits of oversight powers on Trump by Jacqueline Thomsen and Morgan Chalfant (The Hill)
Congress did nothing.
Obama abused executive power and overstepped constitutional boundaries.
Congress did nothing.
Then came Trump.
Congress?
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