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Michael Anissimov

Would basic income be a pragmatic policy, provided those on the dole were removed from the breeding population? "We'll give you free porn, free fried food, free marijuana, free video games, free cable tv, and free housing, but we just need you to get a vasectomy first."

I'm not interested in the economics of maintaining large idle populations

Latest answers from Michael Anissimov

Is consequentialism right?

no. it's compelling but not the whole story. qualitative value matters a whole lot more than quantitative value, which consequentialism ignores.

How do you feel about the majority of the AltRight being composed of white populists who advocate the return of nothing more than a stop gap of Fascism instead of a proper system monarchy ?

fine with me

Emergent group think in the mass media (be it in the audience or the journalists), organizations, and blog comments sections is a threat to any serious discussion of ideas. Do you have any thoughts as to how to prevent a forum of ideas from degenerating into an ideological singularity?

yes
on More Right I forbid comments so only other people with blogs can respond
it's fairly simple

When will your book on monarchy be published?

Within a month hopefully. I'm only about 40 pages from the finish but I keep finding new things I have to read before completing it. Very soon, I promise.

Is the fall of baseball in the national conscious because of baseball, or is it a function of who controls the mass media?

I don't know or care

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