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Monday, January 21, 2019

Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 1871-1873

We live in a frantic, goal-obsessed, myopic time. Everything undertaken has to have a purpose, outcome or a destination, or it’s invalid. But art doesn’t care a noodle about your Apple watch, your fitness goals, active lifestyle, right swipes, career and surrender on black pudding.
... Art exists on its own terms and untidy timeline.
Anakana Schofield
the Guardian



In the realm of ends everything has either a price or dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else which is equivalent; whatever is above all price, and therefore has no equivalent, has dignity....
...Autonomy lies at the root of the dignity of human and of every other rational nature.
Immanuel Kant,
Metaphysical Foundations Of Morals




What gets me is that so many anti-UBI arguments posit that there'll be a class of useless parasites, hanging on to the bottom of society, that we'll have to feed. The evidence suggests that very few people will take that route.
Meanwhile, a society of forced subordination to rich people tends to accrue power to the buyers and sellers of people– corporate executives– and therefore we end up with useless parasites at the top of society.
If we're going to have a few moochers, I'd rather have them at the bottom not bothering anyone than the current arrangement, where they're at the top and run everything.
Michaelochurch

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