Re: [ox-en] the commons as the condition for the basic income
- From: "Michel Bauwens" <michelsub2004 gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:13:49 +0700
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For me the basic idea of a cap and dividend makes sense ...
Nature belongs to all of us (of course it is questionable that it belongs to
humanity, but who else but us can be its stewards?)
Everybody has an equal right to its resource provided natural capital stays
intact ...
Those who temporarily overstep the boundary must pay, thereby creating
incentives to correct the behaviour
And that income is redistributed to those who consume less ...
Makes sense to me
Other types of commons, like land, could function through redistributed
rents,
Michel
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Franz Nahrada <f.nahrada reflex.at> wrote:
In list-en oekonux.org "Vasilis Kostakis" <kostakis.b gmail.com> writes:
The
institutionalization of the Commons is not an imperative just for the
wealth
distribution ,as you articulate it, but amongst others wealth
distribution,
in the proposed way, is a process that could simultaneously eliminate
pollution and provide a basic income.
Vasilis,
thank you for your swift reply.
As you can see I am also struggling with the idea of basic income.
Compare it to the "safe jobs" of the past, where the broad consensus with
the accumulation regime was bought on the base of dependencies.
There is a chance that in the aftermath of the economical crisis
a call for a "new deal" policy will be succesful and could be organized
around a commons.
Nevertheless, it seems that solving the economical and solving the
ecological crisis are mostly seen as two independent things.
Only if we can show the economic power of the commons we might be able
to achieve something.
My friend Joseph Smyth had some thoughts on this that might be relevant:
http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?FranzNahrada/FromSuburbiaToGlobalVillages/EconomicPowerOfSustainableDevelopment
Franz
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