(I’m tired and cranky and after reading my post, I’m apparently in a ranting sort of mood, don’t take my rant as a rebuttal 
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Yesterday, I went to see “Independance day 2”, (yes, this is relevant to the point I want to make). In it, 20 years have passed since the world defeated the aliens and the future is bright, no more hunger, no more war… And everybody has enough money!
That’s when I knew the movie was going to be crap.
There are people in this world who have more money than they could spend in two lifetimes and they still don’t have enough money.
There is never enough money for anybody, let alone everybody .
If Iphones are currently subsidized in part by cheap Chinese labor, does giving a US resident a living wage also mean giving a Chinese factory worker an unfair wage?
Or does a universal income come with a no iPhone clause?
I do think the current system can get better, but it can’t possibly become fair if it’s fueled by inequality, and the current financial system in place was built, piece by piece, to handle scarcity. The law of supply and demand needs scarcity to be as fair as possible. Otherwise, people starving and dying because they lack money and not because food and medicine are scarce (and money is the arbitrary metric used to ration those resources) is just plain psychopathic.
