The idea is not new. Richard Nixon already flirted in 1969 with a negative income tax that, in essence, did not differ too much from the basic income that now goes from word of mouth to half the world. The Republican president imagined a direct payment from the Government to all Americans who did not reach a certain level of income. Half a century later, in the era of digitalization and robots, when employment seems increasingly scarce, the debate about the need for the state to secure the basic needs of all citizens grows like a snowball . The […]
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