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Old 09-26-2016, 06:56 AM   #13 (permalink)
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What are you on about? I'm about as left-wing as you get on this forum, but I have no illusions about being in some kind of ideological majority - that space is occupied by centrist liberals. I reckon there are more conservatives than socialists on here. Also, I'm pro vaccination and have no desire to take away, or even touch your Wi-Fi. I don't know any left-wingers who agree with Jill Stein on these points - on the contrary, my socialist peers perceive them as uncanny hippie tendencies.
I call myself a "libertarian socialist" for want of a better term. And I'm also basically a hippie.

In a nutshell, I'm very liberatarian on moral and social issues, but I'm not at all libertarian on economic/governmental structure issues. I'd give a nutshell version of what I'd do economically instead, but it's not that easy for me to give a nutshell version because it's so different than what anyone else has proposed (which unfortunately also means it would never be implemented . . . well at least not any time soon). But knowing that this will more than likely lead to misunderstandings due to me not filling in a ton of info, I'd basically make the economy structured on providing the wants of others (I believe that all needs are predicated on wants/desires), where competition for scarcer resources would be based on who does more, via a combination of hard work, efficiency and innovation, to provide others wants, which would be determined via polling. A practical upshot would be that everyone would initially be oriented towards making sure that everyone alive has shelter, food, clothing, health care, education, transportation, entertainment, etc.
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