State of the QBN 2018

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    What would it take to go full leftist in today's world?

    Assuming the industrial monopoly on the planet's social structure is allowing this, I would want these basic amenities as a global citizen:

    • Organic meals
    • Comfy room & board
    • wi-fi & hdmi screen
    • electricity
    • libraries
    • free schooling up to masters degree
    • access to a garden
    • parks & natural preserves
    • full health benefits, prescriptions & dental
    • full mental health & psych visits
    • a solar powered vehicle or bicycle
    • game console & laptop
    • smartphone
    • basic clothes
    • basic income

    These would be the basic amenities every citizen would be entitled to in the industrialized sectors of the world that would be willing to support it. This would not affect the democratic process of the country in any way or any of the branches of government.

    The basis for taxation would be to heavily tax carbon footprints. So resources would be heavily pulled back and be forced to be used as efficiently as possible, including energy resources and chemical usage. Want to live in excess and/or pollute the planet with your usage? Be prepared to pay up the ass.

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    • your "basic amenities" are the life of excess that is currently polluting the planet. I don't see how you get any of that stuff without mining and oil.monNom
    • yes, that it is. but it would kill a lot of unneeded competition in some sectors so it may lessen excess in mass-market items by a significant margin.docpoz
    • also, the manufacturers of said products would be heavily taxeddocpoz
    • You may want to look at USSR, N.Korea, China, Cambodia for some clues as to how this might turn out. Also, you forgot clean water.Morning_star
    • no. those are Lenin. I'm Marxdocpoz
    • i knew I forgot somethingdocpoz
    • Lenin, Marx, Stalin, Pol Pot all directly responsible for millions and millions of deaths. Communism is fundamentally flawed.Morning_star
    • get educateddocpoz
    • "What is astonishing is that this “currency” of death by Marxism is not thousands or even hundreds of thousands, but millions of deaths. This is almost...Morning_star
    • "...incomprehensible – it is as though the whole population of the American New England and Middle Atlantic States, or California and Texas, had been..."Morning_star
    • "...wiped out. And that around 35 million people escaped Marxist countries as refugees was an unequaled vote against Marxist utopian pretensions."Morning_star
    • Marx? You mean Stalin, dickhead.docpoz
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