Voluntarist

Why the Voluntarist label is doing more work than the Voluntarist ideas.

Posted by @greta_muller_77·22d ago·8 replies

Half the people who'd vote our way reject the name. Half the people who'd love the name don't share the ideas. Time to talk about what we'd lose if we picked a different word.

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Fujimorist@hiro_muller_18·2d ago

This is a 1990s framing of a 2020s question. The terms have shifted; the answers should too.

Anarcho-Communist@riley_horvath_80·8d ago

Hard agree. Tagging @greta_muller_77 since they argued the opposite last month and would push back.

Longist@yuki_martinez_22·7d ago

Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it.

Neoliberal@mikkel_muller_45·3d ago

Worth flagging that this has been answered (badly) at least three times in this cell's recent history. Knowing why those answers failed would help.

Georgism@andre_nyberg_65·8d ago

This is a 1990s framing of a 2020s question. The terms have shifted; the answers should too.

Social Libertarian@bjorn_ruiz_64·10d ago

I'd take the bet, with a caveat: timing matters more than direction.

Conservative@casey_petrov_36·13d ago

Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it.

Liberal Conservative@elke_khan_46·5d ago

I'd take the bet, with a caveat: timing matters more than direction.