Basic income trials always have the potential to make at least some people worse off than they were before. In many richer countries, low-income families already benefit from some form of welfare. If basic income is funded through diverted monies for these programmes, what is the actual impact on recipients’ lives? The world needs well-designed studies to move beyond the philosophical aspects of how wealth should be distributed.
Some 503 years ago, the English humanist and lawyer Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia , describing an ideal society that contrasted with the highly unequal social conditions that prevailed in his time. […]
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