Basic income (was) Re: noscript is 10 years!

Cathal (Phone) cathalgarvey at cathalgarvey.me
Mon May 25 10:11:03 PDT 2015


Blind signature scheme to guarantee person:income-key correspondence without breaking the privacy of who each represents? However, you'd need to give each person as many signed private keys as transactions they're likely to use each income-cycle to avoid spending-correlation deanonymysation.

On 25 May 2015 17:46:22 GMT+01:00, Troy Benjegerdes <hozer at hozed.org> wrote:
>On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 03:55:23PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
>> On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 1:37 PM, John Young <jya at pipeline.com> wrote:
>> > NYT today has book review on gradual replacement of humans
>> > by robots, a beloved investment of those at the top, so John Deere
>> 
>> Shame no one properly broke the last 3-5 messages off into a
>> separate thread when it went off noscript.
>> 
>> What will happen to the 7000000000 unpaid system redundancies?
>
>We don't need the money, the money needs us, and I expect something
>like
>6,999,999,900 redundancies will suddenly find themselves with various
>forms
>of basic income guarantees once the money finally figures out it's
>automating
>itself out of job, and realizes it needs to start giving the HCF (human
>confinement farms) money or humans are going to stop spending it, and
>this,
>my friends, would be the end of money.
>
>What's important for this cypherpunk is to figure out how to make sure
>we have
>alternatives and free choice to leave the HCFs and choose among many
>basic 
>income systems, or make the choice to not use money at all.
>
>Are blockchains a reasonable thing to build a basic income system on?
>How do
>you ensure a blockchain private key is held or controlled by only one
>person,
>so that one cannot simply create many anonymous IDs and collect several
>hundred
>basic income guarantees? 
>
>It seems there must be a human factor, and something that looks a lot
>like a
>government, but I can't quite wrap my head around how to make sure each
>of
>those 7e9 redunancies can only create 7e9 basic income generating
>accounts, and
>do a moderately good job of identifying and stopping those that try to
>collect,
>via force, coercion, or deceit, more than their share of basic income.

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