Alternative Strategies to fight Inequality

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== Alternative Strategies to fight Inequality ==

*100% Inheritance tax for anything over $10-million.
*Increased public housing and 3d printing of housing.
*A small 1%-5% transaction tax to replace all other taxes. Like the Visa/Mastercard 2.5% transaction fee.
*Governments legislating Google to make their search algorithm become open-source, to end media-bias.
*X-factor style once-a-week Political Voting System for the people, so people can vote directly on laws.
*Raising the minimum wage.
*Universal Basic Income, to ease technological unemployment and give people the benefits of humanity’s technological advancements.
*Raising the tax-free threshold, in Australia it was raised from $6,000 to $18,000 in 2014.
*Any initiates that increase access to free healthcare, while being cautious of collusion with “big pharma”.
*Free internet for all, this could start with a low-data cap eg. 1-GB so all can have access to wikipedia and text-based information.
*Debt defaults and debt forgiveness. Iceland defaulted on it’s debt and now it’s the fastest growing economy in all of Europe.
*Free university and college. Many Scandinavian and European countries have this.
*Open-Source Government, slowly making each section of government open-source one by one.
*Nationalization of Oil, Gas, Mining and Natural Resources.

*Please feel free to add more strategies, these are all possible alternatives, not official or finalized in any way.

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#2

I would add demands like:

the elimination of fines for taking strike action, including sudden walk offs.

Collectivising industry and turning all corperations including large non strategic companies into worker owned and controlled coperatives. Liquidation of resistant corporations and entities with their replacement by a collectivised version.

Nationalization of all strategic industries.

Support of native people’s right to practice their culture and to live on and manage traditional lands.

Universal basic living wage.

Significantly harsher punishments for toxic speculation, insider trading and other forms of financial sabotage.

Limitations on the amount of sugar that can be added to food and drinks with reference to current evidence on the impacts high sugar diets have on human health.

Elimination of state handouts to private corporations, particularly mining companies.

Increase funding for public libraries, with the aim to transform them into centres of community, knowledge and culture.

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#3

I would alter the demand for an x-factor once a week voting into:
Dissolve representative democracy and immediately replace it with a participative/delegative democracy hybrid that maximizes the participation of its citizens within the system whilst also encouraging those with knowledge, experience and passion to step forward and take a leading role.

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#4

Can you give it a short catchy name? The X-factor name is a shortcut so that people can quickly recognize what we’re talking about; weekly voting by phone,sms,internet… we’re doing it all the time for junk TV shows so why not apply it to more important things.

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#5

How about ‘enhanced democracy’ . ‘Rule of merit’?

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#6

One thing you forgot in the list of industries to be nationalised is of course the banking industry. The commanding heights of the economy must be brought under rigid state control.

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#7

Banking is a strategic industry, due to the role it plays in capital circulation and in coordination of investment. Naturally it would be nationalized and merged.

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#8

I agree 100%, that’s why we should keep adding to this list until we have exhausted everything. Then we know what to fight for, and we know what to look out for when politicians are proposing certain ideas.

Yeah why not, “Democracy 2.0” is another one that’s been around. The thing is that now the game is totally rigged, pretty much 100% of the laws that are introduced fuck us over. So if we had any way to vote to even change 5% of those laws to our advantage it would be way better than what we have now which is zero power.

#9

What about calling the X-Factor voting system ‘Democracy Now!’. To give people the feeling that they can affect change ‘Now’ Not every few years.

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#10

Sure, that’s a good suggestion too.

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