There’s no clear case for or against basic income, says David Green, who is chairing a BC government advisory committee. The idea of adopting basic income in B.C. is appealingly simple.
During an era when the gap between rich and poor is reaching levels not seen since the Gilded Age , machines threaten to automate tens of millions of jobs and owning a home is becoming impossible, the idea that governments should make no-strings-attached cash payments to citizens struggling to survive seems to make sense.
That’s the basic logic of an idea that has been debated and tested in Canada for […]
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