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Letter to the Editor: Beware those pushing Green New Deal

Letter to the Editor: Beware those pushing Green New Deal

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York speaks during Women’s Unity Rally in January in this file photo. To the Times:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), D-N.Y., is promoting the Green New Deal (GND) for America to convert us into 100 percent renewable energy by 2030.

Her radical socialistic plan is just a ruse for total government control. The GND will centralize government control of our health care, energy usage, business, homes, private property, travel, technology, finances, education, even our diet, and include “social engineering projects.” During a climate change town hall meeting with Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., AOC admitted that “we […]

Finland basic income trial left people ‘happier but jobless‘

Finland basic income trial left people ‘happier but jobless‘

Giving jobless people in Finland a basic income for two years did not lead them to find work, researchers said.

From January 2017 until December 2018, 2,000 unemployed Finns got a monthly flat payment of €560 (£490; $685).

The aim was to see if a guaranteed safety net would help people find jobs, and support them if they had to take insecure gig economy work.While employment levels did not improve, participants said they felt happier and less stressed.When it launched the pilot scheme back in 2017, Finland became the first European country to test out the idea of an unconditional basic […]

기본소득 관련 최신문헌 목록

검색 및 정리: 이건민 운영위원

참고 1. 국내외에서 기본소득을 주제로 한 문헌들이 갈수록 늘고 있다. 이에 기본소득한국네트워크는 최신문헌들의 정보 공유를 통해 기본소득 연구자들에게 보탬이 되고자 <기본소득 관련 최신문헌 목록>을 주기적으로 발행하기로 했다.

참고 2. 아래 목록은 국내 문헌과 해외 문헌으로 대분류되어 있고, 논문, 도서, 저널 및 잡지 기고문, 서평 등을 포함하고 있다. 기본소득을 옹호하는 논지의 문헌뿐만 아니라, 기본소득을 비판하는 문헌도 포함되어 있다.참고 3. 발간시점과 공개(검색)시점 간 차이가 존재하며, 공개(검색)시점 기준으로 기본소득 관련 문헌을 정리했고, 가나다순, ABC순으로 정렬했다.* 가나다순 ( www.kci.go.kr , 검색어: “기본소득”)민세명(2018). “민주공화정 덕목과 기본소득”. 『21세기정치학회보』 28(4). pp.29~50. [바로 보기] 서정희(2018). “지방자치단체에서의 기본소득 실현 가능성에 대한 법적 고찰”. 『사회복지정책』 […]

India: Prem Das Rai: “Lazy people will be lazy people whether they get money or not”

India: Prem Das Rai: “Lazy people will be lazy people whether they get money or not”

Prem Das Rai (Wikipedia)

The Morung Express newspaper has interviewed the sole Sikkim MP at Lok Sabha (central parliament in India), Prem Das Rai . On the 17 th of February, excerpts of that interview were posted , where Rai clearly states that introducing a universal basic income (UBI) in the state “is a leap of faith”. To him, it is a trust issue, when critics point out that a UBI kind of policy may turn people lazy. In reply, he says that “lazy people will be lazy people whether they get money or not”.

Rai does not conceive UBI as […]

This Giant Beast That Is the Global Economy Season 1, Episode 4 review: I believe AI is our future

This Giant Beast That Is the Global Economy Season 1, Episode 4 review: I believe AI is our future

You’ve seen AI in all your sci-fi movies and computer games but what do you really know about it? And how dangerous could it be? Kal Penn investigates in This Giant Beast That Is the Global Economy Episode 4.

This Giant Beast That Is the Global Economy Season 1, Episode 4 delved into AI. It is our future, but probably not in the way that sci-fi movies try to make out. While it could become smarter than us, it can also be stupider than us. And that’s something Kal Penn looks into.

AI isn’t what many believe it to be. […]

Lovely, lousy and little in between: The new frontier of work

Lovely, lousy and little in between: The new frontier of work

Linda Nazareth is a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Her book Work Is Not a Place: Our Lives and Our Organizations in the Post-Jobs Economy is now available.

When Canada first took a census back in 1871, “blacksmith” and “shoemaker” made the top-10 list of occupations. Unfortunately, if any of the guys who did those jobs then envisioned that their great-great-great grandchildren would be continuing the family business, their dreams would have been very much unfulfilled. Job opportunities for those occupations, as well as many others, have dried up over the years but thankfully have been replaced by […]

Ensure a minimum income for all

A basic income scheme will deliver benefits to the poor only if it comes on top of public services

The idea of a universal basic income (UBI) is gaining ground globally. It has supporters among the political left and right, and among proponents as well as opponents of the free-market economy. A UBI requires the government to pay every citizen a fixed amount of money on a regular basis and without any conditionalities. Crucial to the appeal for such a demand — for a UBI — is that millions of people remain unemployed and are extremely poor, despite […]

DIY Robotics: The New Era of Automation

DIY Robotics: The New Era of Automation

You’ve most likely been hearing much more about robots and robotics technology in the course of the last couple years. That is on the grounds that for the first time since the 1961 introduction of GM’s Unimate, viewed as the first industrial robot, the field is by and by changing world economies. Just this time the effect will be more extensive. A lot more extensive.

Today, robots are springing up in workplaces, emergency clinics, and schools, quite non-industrial environments, just as in warehouses and small assembling centers. To an ever-increasing extent, they are on our streets and flying overhead. Also, […]

Ivanka’s Attack on AOC Reveals Ignorance About Universal Basic Income

Ivanka’s Attack on AOC Reveals Ignorance About Universal Basic Income

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal was recently criticized by Ivanka Trump, who claimed Americans wouldn’t want a universal basic income as proposed in the legislation. Cheriss May / NurPhoto via Getty Images When Ivanka Trump recently went after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal by suggesting that the “idea of a guaranteed minimum is not something most people want” because “people want to work for what they get,” it was difficult not to gag. Here was the recipient of a fortune inherited from a tax-dodging father waxing on about the American work ethic as if she had any […]

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