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Tension between radical new ideas threaten to break social contract further

Tension between radical new ideas threaten to break social contract further

People walks past the Nelson Mandela graffiti in Cape Town. SA’s social contract is under threat, says the writer. PICTURE: ESA ALEXANDER/SUNDAYTIMES The social contract that holds the SA democratic nation state as we know it together is under threat.

This social contract is premised, in its most simple terms, on a trade: citizens pay protection money, in the form of taxation, and submit to the rule of the democratically elected state, which provides physical and fiscal protection in the form of maintaining and enforcing law and order and, increasingly, providing welfare entitlements and social safety nets.

Citizens thus give up […]

Universal Basic Income??

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I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. Universal basic income will simply become inevitable if our society reaches a level of technological and cultural development to make labour obsolete. At some point it will just make more sense than welfare. […]

Universal Basic Income can drive Liberal Democrat success in 2021

Universal Basic Income can drive Liberal Democrat success in 2021

At last September’s conference the Liberal Democrats adopted Universal Basic Income (UBI) as national policy. I’m part of a campaign group within the party called Lib Dems for Basic Income that helped make that happen, and in this piece I want to turn to May’s local elections, our first opportunity as a party to take UBI to the public. We also have a series of events coming up, run in partnership with the Social Liberal Forum and the Compass-hosted Basic Income Conversation , starting with an all-star panel discussing “How to win with UBI” on the evening of 9th […]

Is now the time to introduce a Universal Basic Income?

Is now the time to introduce a Universal Basic Income?

There is a feeling of hope in the air, spring is on its way, days are getting longer and we are tentatively looking towards recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. We have a road map leading us out of this crisis; the end is in sight.

Recovery will not be easy: the 9.9% fall in GDP throughout 2020 was the biggest drop in the UK economy since 1709. Research reveals worsening physical health (as a result of increasingly sedentary lifestyles, a growth in snacking, and a reduction in exercise), alongside the negative impacts of increased unemployment and the nation’s mental health […]

Letters to the editor for Feb. 28, 2021

Letters to the editor for Feb. 28, 2021

The Gainesville Sun Contradictory message

“‘We want everyone to vote, but we don’t want anyone to cheat,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said as he “proposed an array of voting changes” supporting legislation already introduced to limit Floridians’ opportunity to vote by mail. Why? Well, according to DeSantis, “We did it right.”

Huh?While I wasn’t pleased with the results from Florida in the 2020 election, I am glad to hear that, “We did it right,” a statement largely supported by objective metrics.So why alter a system that works? Perhaps because those metrics also tell us that Democrats appear to have taken greater […]

Universal Basic Income for Poverty-Stricken Families Coming Soon to Yolo County

By Macy Lu

DAVIS — Universal Basic Income (UBI), a government program that once only existed in faraway Nordic countries, will soon arrive in Yolo County. Spearheading the pilot project is the director of the Health and Human Services Agency in Yolo County, Nolan Sullivan, who predicts the program might become operational as early as July 2021.

With UBI, a government–in this case Yolo County–would offer all citizens of a given population a periodic payment with as few strings as possible. Its general goal is to buoy those in precarious situations above the poverty line while they try to get […]

ECONOMIC RECOVERY: IS IT TIME FOR A BASIC INCOME FOR ALL?

ECONOMIC RECOVERY: IS IT TIME FOR A BASIC INCOME FOR ALL?

LEAH GAZAN & JOHN CLARKE

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 4:30PM–6:00PM PST, VIA ZOOM WEBINAR (REGISTRATION REQUIRED)

Organized by SFU’s Institute for the Humanities Register https://sfu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ew99Ax7URvKjXf02T7ktww ">HERE PART OF THE www.sfu.ca/humanities-institute/public-events/lecture-series/covid19-lec… ">http:// www.sfu.ca/humanities-institute/public-events/lecture-series/covi …">COVID-19 LECTURE SERIES: "THINKING THROUGH THE PANDEMIC" But how are you going to pay for it? This has been the incredulous, reflexive response to any proposals for progressive reform throughout the neoliberal era. So when the pandemic hit last year, activists had to push hard before governments yielded any substantial income replacement payments to the most vulnerable and those hit hardest by COVID-related losses.The experience with the […]

Arguments against universal basic income reddit

arguments against universal basic income reddit They rely on capital income, which again is 30 percent of the national income. Aug 02, 2018 · 1. The moderator of the Basic Income page on Reddit, under the username 2noame, has called on all Americ. pe/proponen-pension-universal-peruanos-12-uit/. ) "They’ll. Injecting more money into the economy via the people at the lower end of the income scale doesn’t reduce income inequality, it will more likely cause price inflation, which, in turn, flows toward the the people at the upper end of the income scale. It sounds crazy, but Universal Basic Income (UBI) has […]

Joe Biden and Mitt Romney propose a universal basic income for children

Joe Biden and Mitt Romney propose a universal basic income for children

While the Republicans continue to be locked in a civil war that pits the followers of Trump against those who want to break with him, one of the politicians who belong to this second group, Mitt Romney , a senator from Utah, former governor of Massachusetts and a candidate for president, is trying to do something positive for the country by proposing a universal basic income for children.

Curiously, Joe Biden has included a similar proposal in its package of measures to combat the crisis caused by the covid disease. That two politicians of the opposite sign have similar plans […]

How the automation economy can turn human workers into robots

How the automation economy can turn human workers into robots

More than outright destroying jobs, automation is changing employment in ways that will weigh on workers.

The big picture: Right now, we should be less worried about robots taking human jobs than people in low-skilled positions being forced to work like robots.

What’s happening: In a report released late last week about the post-COVID-19 labor force, McKinsey predicted 45 million U.S. workers would be displaced by automation by the end of the decade, up from 37 million projected before the pandemic. That increase is a function both of permanent changes in the economy because of the pandemic — less […]