"Customs grow wild, justice is homeless."

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

It's for the reasons given in your 6th para that I think it needs to be considered... our benefits system has turned into a top-heavy beaurocratic nightmare in the UK. But of course there's plenty wrong with such an idea, for example the interesting question you pose in your 9th about individuals' relative status in Society following on, also what happens if no-one wants to do the dirty jobs. But the idea is that massive simplification in the beaurocracy of the welfare system would yield all the money needed to implement this and far more besides in cost-savings that might also solve our huge shortfalls in NHS funding.

But I don't know about questions of equity... this is fundamental social engineering after all

In my reply to August I mentioned what I called the "social industry". It is an industry for sure, a major business employing hundrrds of thosuands whose job only exist becasue they adminster those who have no job, small wages, raise kids without a rtner, and the overaging society problem amkes itself felt ever more now.

What if all thes ehundreds of thousands of jobs and the enormous monetarian interests and the fat cats of unions and associations are left unemployed by the brave new world...?

People must be made to beleive there is social injustice or dysbalance ven if there is much kless of it or even none, else the whole system of the social industry has nothing it can manage anymore.

And it is like this with many other issues of contemporary public interest as well. The media live by it and fuelling public outcry or even hysteria over non-issues, and then keeping the fires burnign for as long as they can. all for some writers' careers, some moderators' self-descritpion, some broadcaster's reputation.