Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Bernie Sanders Suggests Stealing Even More Cash from the Rich" video.

  1. We're getting to the point where it COULD work! The entitlement of citizenship would include a government stipend/service sufficient for reasonably comfortable survival. This is a guaranteed base level...and veeerrry expensive. However, that expense could be offset technologically: every citizen is chipped, two-way, so all activity, speech, sound is detected and recorded. Most will be employed as monitors, providing the new "police" function: the chip is capable of exerting a variety of influences, mechanical and chemical, upon command from the monitor. The only prohibition is against non-consensual potentially-injurious physical contact. This is rendered impossible by the chip/monitor system. With everyone's basic needs taken care of, most of what we recognize today as "society" just doesn't happen. No police force, or other enforcement structure is needed, which preserves a lot of resources. Utopia! My ASS! Looks more like "bored and lazy" to me! It's just MORE INTERESTING to suffer...
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