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You can live well enough to live off groceries from ur local shops and get yourself around.

... I don't want to and I support moves to give pensioners more money because I feel they should have a better standard of living but I think the idea that you 'can't live on the single aged pension' is sensationalism.

$250/week + free housing... Do you really think it'd be THAT hard?

I'm fairly sure I was taking a far more pragmatic middle ground approach but thanks moll.

Truthfully though, maybe when we have robots to do all our bidding. That'll be fucking sweet.

YAY!

I think we should wait for the review of all pension schemes but it should be done in as timely a manner as possible. That's not to say the one off quick payments have no appeal, but without a proper review who gets to decide who receives such payments?

Is it possible to have an economy whereby we don't require physical goods?

If you had a completely 'digital economy' where everyone has full access etc then that sounds like communism.... or at the very least anarchism. Either way, we do not have that and 'digital economy' just seems to be a buzzword for 'we have a strong e-commerce sector' which really just uses the...

Did you pay attention when you read it Zstar? More the reason why the poor/middle class should desire the profits from owning the means of production to go to them instead of the top 1% or so of wealth? You can have more. If you work harder under communism you will receive greater reward...

Under communism you take say... (to make things really simple) the top 5% or so of extremely wealthy people and you share their wealth around to the other 95%. So under such a scheme (if there's no other factors, people will definitely argue there are) for most people the greedy option should be...

If by human tendencies you mean our greed... wouldn't that support people moving more towards socialism? After all most people arguably would be wealthier.

In conclusion, most people's arguments against communism (and free market capitalism) are strawmen.

What principle would you have us take for believing in different realms of existance? It seems to me that anyone who becomes semi-conscious of this world around us will be forced into acknowleging the existance of the natural. I must, necessarily, whether the natural realm 'truly exists' or not...

Yes but I think they have to show that it exists, whereas the proof of the natural is all around me... anything you see, that is what I call natural. I have no idea what you mean when you talk of the supernatural, no idea at all, for all I know it could just be empty words. What are the...

So Turnbull was middle to upper middle class and managed to become extremely successful through hard work and obvious intelligence. How dare he tell this story?!

As I said, if we stick to looking at the situations our ancestors would have found themselves in. I think Kwayera's trying to make a point of saying that instincts are completely separate from rationality, thus no rationality is 'instinctual'. We obviously accept this... they remain...

If you're just saying that you don't think our instincts are rational when it comes to the market or other modern social institutions... then I doubt you're disagreeing with Ashton.

I don't think you can say our instincts are irrational or rational, they're pre-rational. As for whether our instincts are the most rational answer in any given situation... well I don't think they'd be found to be perfectly irrational or rational but surely if we stick to looking at the...

hahaha p.s. he's right u know, the rational economic man is as mythical a beast as the 'reasonable person' and far less useful.