Modern Scotland should embrace a basic income

Modern Scotland should embrace a basic income

Aberdeenshire councillor Leigh Wilson TO celebrate the Year of Young People, every week in 2018 The National is giving a platform to young Scots. This week, 22-year-old Aberdeenshire councillor Leigh Wilson.

MY favourite contemporary economist is the former Newsnight editor Paul Mason. In his recent publication PostCapitalism, Mason provides a compelling critique of the current capitalist system, as well as sensing the direction of travel of the modern global economy. His hypothesis is that the current metric of economic success – growth, spending, consumerism and accumulation of debt – is nearing the end of its life cycle and something altogether […]

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