Yay, we've found another Millennial to troll

Everyone shall be given a government job recording crappy 1980s novelty pop!

 

ESpecially if we're breaking out the backup dancers

 

If you ever inherited anything from anyone anything you say/write should be disregarded.

 

Well, no, but don't go lecturing everyone on the virtues of self-reliance.

 

Right, and that's certainly what Goldberg's op-ed was about ...

 

Much of Goldberg's work IS about that. It's easy to be a fervent supporter of meritocracy when you have built-in advantages that 90 percent of people don't have.

Just because Myerson goes the complete opposite route doesn't change perception of Goldberg. In other words, two idiots on opposing sides of the spectrum are still idiots.

 

I'm all for it. Let's go. Today is a great day to start. Where do I sign up?
I hope he has a plan and will enlighten us on where exactly the government will get all this money to give everyone if no one is working to produce/sell anything and taxes aren't being collected. Plans blow. As long as it's a good idea, I'm sure everything will work out.

 

Somehow, an article attacking a version of socialism that will never exist, in the LA Times - which has been failing spectacularly at this whole "capitalism" thing lately - seems right for a bleak, cold January day.

 

This guy can't write.
But that's one of the dirty little secrets in magazines.

 

The guy wants Communism, let's give him the realities of Communism. Let's introduce him to the Gulag.

 

Yes, what crazy ideas. He must have gotten some of these from noted communist and left-wing rabble rouser Milton Friedman--you know, the guy who supported a universal basic income* (and said a land-value tax was the least bad tax). But I'm sure the noted conservative thinkers and economists in this thread know more than him.

* albeit in the form of a negative income tax.

 

You know...while what this guy is advocating is pretty far out there - to pick an obvious example, the entire #FULLCOMMUNISM idea - some of his proposals aren't as unprecedented as people think. North Dakota has a state-owned bank, and there's at least one major sovereign wealth fund, based on resources located on state-owned land, in an area that many on the right regard as a libertarian paradise:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund