Money is the problem. Money and the mutated system that supports it.

It's because of money that information doesn't get shared properly any more. That is because money and information are the same thing now. That's one big reason why people don't understand why government really has done a lot for them.

And sure, it would be great, on a purely individual to individual basis, to make sure that everybody had at least some bottom line of income to fall back on. But think for a moment what suddenly giving everybody in this nation a fallback income would do in other, unintended effects.

The world already has more demand for things than the planet can't sustain. And let's be clear on the fact that China might be on the verge of introducing several more, American sized groups of consumers. Do you seriously think, with the wasteful way Capitalism works in any case, that suddenly increasing the purchasing power of two or more American sized groups of consumers is going to help the already dangerous sets of competition we have for resources?

Then consider the practical aspects of more money without the needed meaningful relationships between getting something, and what you had to do to get it. And I mean this in the context of what happens when you give people, say, something like public housing, without them having any sense of owning the responsibility of having that housing (and of course you make the public housing look like something out of a prison movie, meant to house undesirables). The kind of relationship that makes people want to do what needs to be done to keep the thing of value given to them useful. Especially when all the while all that is around folks these days is nothing but bad message on what you should want now, as opposed to receiving on a delayed basis. When wanting, in fact, is of prime manipulative importance to a consumption machine that requires only mindless consumption (why do you think addiction now works so well as a sales inducement); because nothing else will do to fill the ever more mind numbing ability of the combined, world, productive machine to mass produce in ever greater quantities; as long, of course, as we're not fighting each other for the energy, or the metals, or the feedstocks to a blizzard of other consumer products.

And finally, lets consider the fight over who is ultimately going to pay for this, overall, largess.

Sure, Big Money could afford to be taxed to pay for it, and they would still have a great deal of money left over, but they are not very likely to see it that way. And if you understood the psychology of hoarding you would know that this fear based behavioral tendency doesn't have much connection to logical notions like "don't you think you have way more than enough now?" Precisely because there can never be enough for such people. And so they will fight you. And how much of that will also be because of the inherent racism these folks tend to have when they get incensed by the number of working people here, working very dangerous, and onerous jobs, that we won't work anymore, and still wouldn't because... Well, because we'd all have the money to not have to even consider taking those really shitty jobs anymore. But the immigrants who could really use the boost? Do you think Big Money is going to like giving them a guaranteed wage? And even if they did, what then would be the incentive for anybody to do the "shitty" work?

Money and the mutated system that supports it must go. Understand that. Accept it. You simply do not have the luxury of time for anything else.

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[Post Note: It is a wonder here just how much of the fault of this goes to the amount of "hype" that IBM has been resorting to in recent years to hide its continuing falling revenue. But then, what else would you expect from a system where hype, and manufactured belief, are so important now; now that it has been so mutated, and corrupted, by the greedy application of what electrified experience retrieval gave to us as extensions of our abilities. J.V.]