I read with real interest Anna Coote’s article earlier this week, which questioned the arguments and assumptions behind the policy of basic income. It was a well written and reasoned article, but it presented an overly simplistic idea of basic income, what it is, what it is for and who pays for it. At its heart, a basic income is a liberation project. It has the potential to free citizens from three evils: want, drudgery and insecurity. If this crisis has showed anything, it’s how precarious many people’s financial lives are – living pay day to pay day, maybe […]
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