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IMO, the best political solution there is to maximally decouple it from "government". Obviously this would be hard to do given the current organization of society and technology since tax revenue is the only sufficient source of money, and anything that relies on taxes is necessarily influenced by politics, but there are examples; Georgist systems like Alaska's oil dividend combined with endowment funds would be best, although we would need to actually create these institutions somehow. In the medium term, technological advances to make food, housing and medicine cheaper are probably the best bet.


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