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Originally Posted by redpoint5
If I get an equal share regardless, then my contribution is ZERO. Heck, might as well light some things on fire while you're doin nothing. Consider it a contribution to society because a bad idea killed quickly is better.
How do you value a non-renewable resource if the opportunity cost is infinite? It's a good question, but I don't think humanity is smart enough to grapple with it.
There's no need for such legislation to be so extreme. You implement very gradual tax increase over long periods of time, and announce years in advance what those increases will be, and the market will hardly notice. Combine that with international cooperation, and alternatives to fossil fuels becomes an inevitability.
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What do you do with this tax revenue? It is the basic income fund for the world. Which is only a baseline. Not an equal cut of everything. Your income goes up from there by using skill and doing work. Why should a person listen to me when I ask them to not cut down all of the trees if they get nothing from all of the resources that I am consuming just because they come out of the ground somewhere else. There is no price paid for the actual resource. Only the cost of extraction