Category: Basic Income

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Dr. Jess Berentson-Shaw, a science researcher, has co-written a book with Dr. Gareth Morgan entitled Pennies from Heaven , which advocates implementing a UBI for lower income families. Berentson-Shaw has a PhD in Health Science from Victoria University, and works for the Morgan Foundation with Dr. Gareth Morgan, an economist and public policy analyst. The Morgan Foundation is a trust with the stated aim of reducing wealth disparities.

The book argues for $200-a-week benefit for all parents with a child under three, and a basic income for lower-income families, which would be financed through the redistribution of taxes […]

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Debating what the government of Ontario’s pledged basic income pilot program will look like. Activists for a universal basic income install a giant poster in a public square in Geneva, Switzerland, in May 2016, ahead of a referendum on the issue that failed. Photo via University of Toronto. We live in a society where people cannot access enough money to survive, and where economic inequality is so dire that the two richest Canadians own more wealth than the poorest 30 per cent of the country combined.

The basic income debate is more pressing than ever; the government of Ontario recently […]

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Under the creatively worded title of “Universal Basic Income: A Conversation with and within the Mahatma,” chapter 9 of the recently presented 2016-17 Economic Survey lays out a case for a Universal Basic Income (UBI) for every Indian.

Under the proposal, every Indian would get Rs 12,000 per year as basic income from the state. This is touted as a very significant anti-poverty measure as this sum would reach every Indian, rich and poor. As a proportion of household income, this sum would be much higher for the poor than for the non-poor.

Hence, it would have the beneficial effect of […]

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From: Dennis Brasky via Marxism <marxism ( at ) lists ( dot ) csbs ( dot ) utah ( dot ) edu>

Subject: [Marxism] universal basic income a "social vaccine" for technological displacement?

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Michael Bohmeyer, the founder of Mein Grundeinkommen (My Basic Income). Photo: DPA Miko from Berlin may only be five, but he already has €1,000 ($1,063) per month to live on — not from hard graft, but as part of an experiment into universal basic income.

He is one of 85 people, including around 10 children, chosen by startup Mein Grundeinkommen (My Basic Income) to receive the payments for a year since 2014.

Founder Michael Bohmeyer has set out to prove to a sceptical public in Germany and further afield that the universal basic income (UBI) idea is workable."Thanks to my first […]

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Michael Bohmeyer, founder of startup ‘Mein Grundeinkommen’ (My Basic Income) which raffles an unconditional basic income, poses for a photo at his office in Berlin on April 13, 2017. — AFP pic BERLIN, April 17 — Miko from Berlin may only be five, but he already has €1,000 (US$1,063, RM4, 678) per month to live on — not from hard graft, but as part of an experiment into universal basic income.

He is one of 85 people, including around 10 children, chosen by startup Mein Grundeinkommen (My Basic Income) to receive the payments for a year since 2014.

Founder Michael Bohmeyer […]

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That would be the fuking life brahs. We were born to early for it. We and the generation(s) behind us will probably be the ones fukked in the transition period, where automation is rapidly replacing jobs but before a basic income system is set in place. fuark wuts wrong with this These The lower and middle class have been getting fuked by outsourcing […]

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Universal Basic Income is a concept which has been proposed as an alternative to means tested Welfare programs. Advocates of UBI hold that the overhead of means tested Welfare is excessive to the point that if you liquidated the entirety of the associated bureaucracy and started just issuing checks without the means testing apparatus you would end up ahead.

People later on in responses are free to use whatever sources they want of course, but I will be using US Debt Clock.org as it’s a reasonably accurate source with all the numbers readily apparent in one neat table:

U.S. National […]

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Robots are poised to eliminate millions of jobs over the coming decades. We have to address the coming epidemic of "technological unemployment" if we’re to avoid crippling levels of poverty and societal collapse. Here’s how a guaranteed basic income will help — and why it’s absolutely inevitable. Davide Bonazzi – Security vs. privacy: stealing data. Client: Indiana University magazine. #conceptual #illustration #editorial A Universal Basic Income Is the Utopia We Deserve The idea of a universal basic income for all citizens has been catching on all over the world. Is it too crazy to believe in? […]

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