The grandfather of basic income is Karl Marx, he described it as from each according to their ability to each according to their need. That is from the Communist Manifesto, but the proponents of this idea today run away from the label socialist.
There is a popular meme out there that says, paraphrasing, "liberalism (progressivism/statism/socialism etc): ideas so good they have to be made mandatory. It brings up an interesting question. Where are the successful, voluntary basic income associations for us to look at and study to determine the worthiness of this idea? Have the proponents of basic income convinced […]
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