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What do you think about the institution of a living wage to every human residing within the state?

I mean if we are going to have state-capitalism, why shouldn't we run it according to the interests what we in the US call the Middle Class (really the working class)?

It represents direct action to the heart of the problem, which is the existence of an economically derived class structure. If each individual receives at minimum the basic living wage that removes the aspect of wage slavery and guarantees freedom. Most people would neither need nor want the basic income. If you do want it, then in my opinion you are oppressed and therefore are entitled to it.

So let's nationalize the economy (or if a reasonable "market solution" can be formulated) and use it to fund a basic living wage for all and remove wage slavery from the picture, thus advancing the entire human race in one fell swoop!

Wadda ya say? It's either that or the Precariat for the global majority.

If you admit that private capital/class structure is the seat of the modern social problem why retain support for vestiges of the system that essentially render unto the upper class a special protected status like the British monarchy or something?

I don't see the point of that.

And I think a series of massive, coordinated sit-in strikes would get the point across. We don't need a shooting war.

I see nationalizing those industries, and capital itself for that matter, as the repatriation of the commons. All individuals should be able to draw from these common resources to realize the full product of their own labor and to actualize their own lives.