Born more than 500 years ago, basic income idea for all gains strength in the pandemic

Born more than 500 years ago, basic income idea for all gains strength in the pandemic

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People line up to collect emergency aid amid the coronavirus pandemic

“Thieves are condemned to a cruel and atrocious ordeal, when it would be preferable to ensure the subsistence of each one, so that no one is faced with the need to steal and then be executed.”
So the Portuguese traveler Rafael Hitlodeu defends, at the beginning of the work Utopia , written by the British philosopher and statesman Thomas More (1478-1535), the distribution of basic means of subsistence to the population to prevent citizens from having to […]

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