Category: Basic Income

The main message of 2016 was that we are entering a period of economic and political upheaval comparable to the industrial revolution of 1780-1850, and nothing expressed that message more clearly than Donald Trump’s appointment of Andrew Puzder as secretary of labour — even though it’s clear that neither man understands the message.

Puzder bears a large part of the responsibility for giving space for Trump’s election promise to “bring back” America’s lost industrial jobs: seven million in the past 35 years. That’s what created the Rust Belt and the popular anger that put Trump in power.

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FUCKING COMMUNISM! BLASPHEMY!

I know what you’re thinking- get this goddamn liberal horse shit out of here – but hear me out. Karl Marx can suck a dick. Reagan’s immortal soul will trickle down from heaven for eternity, praised be his name, Amen.

The Great American Experiment has been chuggin’ along just fine for centuries now. Socialism and all the other left wing–isms have failed throughout history, time and time again.Socialism is a broken record of human stupidity.Some say this time round is no different. Any socialist shit will eventually be flushed down the toilets of history as another failed experiment […]

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Not dim band Khmer previous session… Popular Let’s continue (if a broken leg injured quick ceramic packages). All three emerged to… Popular Sar Kheng clarification regarding the murder of Dr. Ley… Cambodian lawyer receives jail term for attempting to bribe judge

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 30 (FN) — A Cambodian court on Friday sentenced lawyer Pich Ratana to five years in prison, with three years of that suspended, for attempting to bribe a judge, according to a verdict. The lawyer was arrested by the government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on May 31 in Phnom Penh after he allegedly […]

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Engineers in South Korea test a four-metre-tall humanoid manned robot dubbed Method-2 At the start of a new year, what is there to look forward to? According to predictions from think tanks and tech experts, advances in automation and artificial intelligence will threaten the jobs of millions of workers. The CEO of one company, Capgemini, goes further, predicting that AI will be one of the key factors dividing society into the haves and have-nots, with highly skilled engineers at the one end of the spectrum and low paid unqualified worker drones at the other, with nothing in between.

There will […]

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Martine Mary Waltho (BIEN Life Member) – “My Basic Income Journey”

I first came across the idea of a basic income when I was at university in 1984. There was an article in a magazine; it might have been the New Society . It was written by a man who used to be a probation officer. I think this was Bill Jordan. The article was written in a clear and commonsense way. In this way the article took on a life of its own and acted as a discussion point.

Soon after this there were meetings at the Quaker Meeting […]

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I may be repeating some of the stuff in propaganda, but my reluctance here has a lot of merit. A livable UBI can work. It’s not the only answer by far:

Value human labor higher Tax the fucking robots Put people to work on public projects

Could come up with a few more pretty easy.A non livable one ends up being a market solution where markets aren’t well indicated.I don’t like the conflict of interest between human needs and markets very much at all.For things like food, yeah. Markets do work.Utilities? Hate them. People are often forced consumers in monopoly scenarios. […]

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Photo taken by Stefan Pangritz at a solidarity meeting for the Swiss
referendum in January 2014 in Basel.

Toru Yamamori ( Basic Income News editor)
1. Encounter to the idea My encounter to the idea of a basic income was around 1991-2. I was involved in solidarity activism with a casual worker’s trade union, in which many of the members were homeless construction workers. Some left leaning intellectuals also came to show their solidarity from time to time, and one of them told me that what we need is the idea of ‘unconditional social income’ that was articulated […]

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Economist Joseph Stiglitz was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2001 for his work on information asymmetries in the market. He was Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton and Chief Economist of the World Bank from 1997 to 2000. And he is a supporter of universal basic income (UBI).

On October 25, 2016, Stiglitz was the featured guest on Vox editor Ezra Klein’s podcast, The Ezra Klein Show. Although the question was not a focal point of the 70 minute interview, Klein did ask Stiglitz whether he favors a UBI in the United States.

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Your user agent does not support the HTML5 Video element. A group of 2,000 unemployed people in Finland will receive a basic income every month from the state, tax-free and with no strings attached. Proponents hope to prove such schemes boost people’s motivation to find work.

http://www.dw.com/en/finland-to-test-universal-basic-income-for-the-unemployed/a-36928824

Well ..this will be an interesting experiment. I for one hope it will work and will serve as an example for other economies[AH mode] start background music: Dire Straits, money for nothing [/AH mode] 2 people have thanked this post Some snippets from the OP:Did you read the title of the threadFinland […]

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