Extremism and Basic Income: Part 2

Extremism and Basic Income: Part 2

In part 1 of this article , I defended the following argument:

> The globalization and automation of our economy has resulted in financial distress amongst (primarily) the poor and poorly educated.

This is not likely to stop — in fact, it’s almost certainly going to get worse. Therefore, we can expect to see continuing support for extremist political parties and candidates. In this second part, I’ll defend the idea that a Basic Income would be an effective solution to the problem of political extremism because it would reduce this financial distress. As Phillipe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght […]

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