Re: [GNU/consensus] ZCash (lupa)

[carlo von lynX]

Ciao lupa

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 03:55:40PM -0400, lupa wrote:
> Anyway, capitalism sucks and it still there and stronger than ever,

Yes, and making a cash system that bypasses the tax system means
that capitalism will be much harsher with zcash as it empowers the
rich to hide their riches and become richer and richer while the
poor just get a tool for exchanging digital value they don't have.

> maybe we don't have to think on how will work taxing systems, and
> instead something like: how humanity will better distribute all the
> goods and resources, because now it's a mess.

That's the purpose of the tax system. We have to improve and reform
it, but as a society we cannot function without taxes. Taxes serve
primarily the poor. It is capitalist propaganda to think taxes are
evil. It is only evil for the super-rich. Everyone slightly less
rich has more benefit than disadvantage from the tax system.

> From my point of view, Ethic Capitalism is an Oximoron.

If you define capitalism without redistribution by taxes, yes.
Also a well prepared unconditional basic income (there are plenty
which are bad, so it depends on who designs it) is factually a
kind of reform of the tax and labour payment system. A very
radical reform of the tax system, which we certainly need. But
it doesn't try to solve injustice by abolishing justice - that I
would guess is what Bitcoin and zCash try to do.

I hate mailing lists that default to single person reply, as if
that was a realistic social behaviour.