Category: Basic Income

HAMILTON, Ontario – Former security guard Tim Button considers how a sudden increase in his income from an unusual social experiment has changed his life in this Canadian industrial city along the shore of Lake Ontario.

Sipping coffee in a Tim Horton’s doughnut shop, Button says he has been unable to work because of a fall from a roof, and the financial boost from Ontario Province’s new "basic income" program has enabled him to make plans to visit distant family for Christmas for the first time in years. It has also prompted him to eat healthier, schedule a long-postponed […]

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Göbeki Tepe, Anatolia (Image by Teomancimit, Wikimedia Commons) The “modern” relationship between human beings and Work begins with the Neolithic Revolution when agriculture and animal husbandry coincides with the establishment of permanent settlements.

The beginning of this process in different regions has been dated from 10,000 to 8,000 BC in the Fertile Crescent. The transition from hunter-gatherer to agriculturalist was initially detrimental to the health of the population, something that has been attributed to the reduction in the diversity of food, but also to the increase in harder work needed to maintain a steady supply for the now growing settlements. […]

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Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM) seems to be forming a pattern of major movements, providing only some crumbs of outlook for market participants trying to figure out its next move. Now trading with a market value of 9.35B, the company has a mix of catalysts and obstacles that spring from the nature of its operations. As the day-to-day narrative ebbs and flows for this company, it is more important than ever to step back and get a bird’s eye view of the fundamental reality under the surface of this story.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM) Fundamentals That Matter

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Well, what did you do this morning? Unless it was your day off you probably went to work and unless you love going to work, it was because you had to not because you wanted to. You may have a mortgage, credit cards, car payments and other unsecured loans. You have to pay these off, if you dont your creditors will be coming after you. Depending on how much debt you have will more than likely decide how much free time you have. If you’ve got loads of debt you may be taking overtime to to pay off […]

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>> >>151215814
volatility too high 🙁
we are all fucked anyway.
>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/13/should-we-scrap-benefits-and-pay-everyone-100-a-week-whether-they-work-or-not
>Swiss will vote in a referendum on a plan that would see all adults receive about £1,700 a month, with an extra £400 for each child.Mohamed + £400 *Thump*Abdu + £400*Thump*Abdul + £400*Thump*Abdul Ahad + £400*Thump*Abdul Ali + £400*Thump*Abdul Alim + £400*Thump*Abdul Azim + £400*Thump*Abd al-Aziz + £400Fazl ur Rahman + £400*Thump*Fazlallah+ £400*Thump*Fazli+ £400*Thump*Fazlul Haq+ £400*Thump*Fazlul Karim+ £400*Thump*Fikri + £400*Thump*Fouzan + £400*Thump *Fuad + £400*Thump*Furkan + £400Guess i need to move to a country too poor to do UBI >> Universal Income lowers crime:>In fact, research shows that basic […]

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Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), analyzed on Monday 27 November the potential benefits that a universal and unconditional basic income could have on the 145 million young people in the region, during her presentation of the book Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy , by authors Phillippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght, published by Grano de Sal.

According to Bárcena, this could be “a redistributive, intergenerational and emancipating instrument” for young people in the region, that could allow them not only to start […]

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Residents in the communities chosen to pilot Ontario’s basic income program, including Hamilton, no longer have to receive one of these packages in the mail, in order to apply. (Matt Prokopchuk / CBC) Kelly Bennett is an award-winning reporter who lives in Hamilton. She grew up in Victoria and covered economics and arts as an investigative reporter in San Diego. She loves digging into great stories, hiking and playing the violin. Drop her a line anytime at kelly.bennett@cbc.ca.

Just 800 people in Ontario, including in Hamilton and Brantford, have begun receiving monthly deposits from the government as part of a […]

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The concept of a universal basic income (UBI) is highly controversial. It is a system whereby, in place of all the various social programs, a guaranteed basic income is granted to every citizen. There are various methods of how this is done – some graduated, and some just a base amount. Amongst libertarians, the conflict is generally not over whether UBI can replace some or all of the social programs, but more typically it is over whether it is right and just to take from some in the form of taxes to give to others in the form of […]

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