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One possibility is to discourage advertising. As the article points out, it's zero-sum. 78% of Americans are spent out. Make advertising no longer a deductible business expense. It's like multilateral disarmament. There are too many products where most of the cost is advertising.

As for universal basic income, someone wrote that the 21st century has been the move from career, to job, to gig, to universal basic income.

How about enforcing an 8 hour day, a 40 hour week, and a good minimum wage? That's a start. And make "time theft" by employers a crime.



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