The truth is, poverty is a disease ravaging the world’s economies and universal basic income (UBI) may be the cure. Universal basic income could provide all citizens with the funds to feed, shelter and educate themselves without outside interference. Can universal basic income really work? The utopian ideal may sound like it’s on the bleeding edge, but, in reality, the idea of every citizen receiving an unconditional sum of money is quite old. In fact, American revolutionary Thomas Paine proposed a dividend for all citizens of age in his pamphlet Agrarian Justice, published in 1797. “To preserve the benefits […]
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