Around the world there is increasing interest in the idea of a universal basic income , that is, a regular payment made to everyone by the state, regardless of income or employment. The discussion is in part fueled by dramatic trends toward automation in industry and its impacts on labor under capitalism. In France, the Socialist Party presidential candidate, Benoît Hamon, calls for a basic income. Perhaps surprisingly to some, conservatives in many countries, including in Ontario and Scotland, are also examining basic income schemes. Here in Finland, a country with a large, wide-reaching and well-established welfare system, an […]
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