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Hows this sound :
Take from the people what they earn.
Give the people what they need.
Flawless, no starvation, every one has shelter, and the government gets surplus balance, now if you are worried about revoltz, use the army to surpress the mass's.
Simples
Question: What motivates me to excel if the government takes 100% of what I earn?
The goverment and my neighbour are not entitled to the sweat of my brow.
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That would be nicely said BF; if only you hadn't been a soldier nowadays. 
if we only got what we needed we wouldnt be online to thave this chat
and if we waited for the govt to serve us we'd die a lingering death
I liked the army crushing the puny citizens part.
> Zarf BeebleBrix wrote:
> Question: What motivates me to excel if the government takes 100% of what I earn?
The army with the guns telling you to work or die?
> You_Fool wrote:
> > Zarf BeebleBrix wrote:
> Question: What motivates me to excel if the government takes 100% of what I earn?
The army with the guns telling you to work or die?
That gets people to work, but does it get people to reach to their fullest potential?
Does it give incentives for innovation?
> Zarf BeebleBrix wrote:
> > You_Fool wrote:
> > Zarf BeebleBrix wrote:
> Question: What motivates me to excel if the government takes 100% of what I earn?
The army with the guns telling you to work or die?
That gets people to work, but does it get people to reach to their fullest potential?
well the slave trade worked due to fear that can be implimented, the only difference between this and the slave trade is you have a choice not to work, No work you get shot. So bassically to make you work to your best have a series of punishments :
1. First offence 100 lashs
2. Second offence - Forced to shoot a kid
And so the list goes on all the way to death by 1000 cuts
Want a get out clause ? Someone needs to be in the army, maybe its your lucky day, hey they might even let you keep your computer
> Einstein wrote:
> Does it give incentives for innovation?
Quite simply no but bribery of the intelligent peeps or indeed blackmail is not out of teh question
you know, I could be rather crazy, but that DOES sound similar to a form of communism, the chinese version...
It sounds like the USSR. It doesn't work.
1.) motive to work.
If you need people to "work for all", you need a control system. In this system a democratic one would fall. So you need a totalitarian regime, which is corrupted by default. This causes HUGE corruption, waste and a large and costly bureaucracy.
2.) in order to give people "what they need", you need to consider a few things:
1 it might be impossible.
2 who's going to decide what somebody needs?
3 to control it, you need a large bureaucracy and that is very costly and destined to be corrupt.
Make it a theocracy: God sees you, and will smite thee if thou does not fulfill thy key performance indicators!
Another name for God could also be Vice President Technical Operations
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