Oh no, those dozen or so old dirty hippies that still read Rolling Stone might read the article...and immediately forget it.
Posted on 01/04/2014 4:15:35 PM PST by mandaladon
The next time you wonder just how far to the left Rolling Stone magazine is, consider that in its first issue of the new year, it actually published an article calling for capitalism to be totally abolished in America and replaced with a socialist structure wherein people didn't need to work, all assets were taken over by the government, and redistributed to the masses.
Fasten your seatbelts before continuing further:
1. Guaranteed Work for Everybody
Unemployment blows. The easiest and most direct solution is for the government to guarantee that everyone who wants to contribute productively to society is able to earn a decent living in the public sector...A job guarantee that paid a living wage would anchor prices, drive up conditions for workers at megacorporations like Walmart and McDonald's, and target employment for the poor and long-term unemployed – people to whom conventional stimulus money rarely trickles all the way down...Imagine a world where people could contribute the skills that inspire them – teaching, tutoring, urban farming, cleaning up the environment, painting murals – rather than telemarketing or whatever other stupid tasks bosses need done to supplement their millions. Sounds nice, doesn't it? Sounds nice? And where would the money come from? And what would the goods and services produced by so many people requiring higher wages cost? How would people afford them?
Keep your seatbelts on, because the author has an answer:
2. Social Security for All But let's think even bigger. Because as much as unemployment blows, so do jobs. What if people didn't have to work to survive? Enter the jaw-droppingly simple idea of a universal basic income, in which the government would just add a sum sufficient for subsistence to everyone's bank account every month...
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And everybody should have a pony, and a bazillion dollars and no one should ever have to work again and oh... world peace no disease or fat people cause everyone will be gorgeous with free plastic surgery and no one will ever have to eat brussel sprouts again.
What capitalism?
So, you are saying there are benefits of socialism?
That isn’t an article, it’s a stoned dorm room conversation. “Share the land, man.” Right. Get out your farming tools, sonny.
Do they not remember Greece, Spain, Portugal? Greece is in a heck of a fix because of this and that was a year or two ago. This is insanity.
Oh no, those dozen or so old dirty hippies that still read Rolling Stone might read the article...and immediately forget it.
I am sad to report that yes, there would be a benefit to socialism, with respect to the demise of a certain washed-up “rock and roll” magazine that hasn’t been relevant since they put Dr. Hook on the cover back in ‘73.
intresting that the only people who advocate socialism are people who have never lived under it and can’t escape it.
Waiting for the stone to roll over them
many socialist places have dropped it because of this fact.
Gotta love how leftist rags- that nowadays rely almost solely on advertising revenues from eeevil profit-seeking companies to stay afloat- are always so rabidly anti-capitalist...
Rolling Stone: why wait? If you hate capitalism why don’t you begin distributing your rag for free?
That is, if they remain in business. Dictators work on whims. I would be careful Rolling Stone. You may get what you think you wish for.
You have to make it out of the womb without being aborted first.
LOL!!
And what has kept Rolling Stone in ink but the free market fueled by capitalism!?! Idiots all...
Rolling Stone became irrelevant after Hunter Thompson’s and Ben Fong Torres” writing stopped being publish by the rag. Around 1970, I believe.
Hahaha, this has as much credibility as Paul Krugman. Even middle school economics are lost on these idiots. Another attempt to resuscitate a magazine with less circulation than barbed wire catalogs.
I think every rich socialist should pay for what they want. Every democrat worth more then $250k should pay 100% of their wealth to the government. Pay back is a b1 tch
Try an experiment... round up all of the Rolling Stone employees, confiscate all of their homes and other “real” properties, put them all in section 8 housing, allot them equal pay $4 - $5 per hour but only if they work 60 hours a week in a job they all do, minimal bread, water, flour, rice, beans and an occasional horse they can slaughter and see how they’d prefer to live 4 years later.
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