Category: Basic Income

With machines and automation threatening the livelihoods of many workers, such as truck drivers, many countries are now looking to a universal basic income system to boost their economies. Photo: K. Y. Cheng China’s minimum living standard guarantee, named dibao , is receiving fresh interest in the region as countries from Korea to India turn to universal basic income (UBI) to boost their economies and combat the coming automation-induced job crisis.

UBI, or the regular distribution of free money to all citizens as a form of social security, has been on the fringes of economic policy debate since the late […]

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No, read it more carefully. He’s saying that “secretly inserted into the 30 people are 4 people who would loaf, complain, etc…” In other words, he’s not saying that some people are just lazy, he’s RIGGING the “test” on his little fantasy by ASSUMING that some people are lazy. In actual reality, most people would work if given the chance. Ughh…where’s the smart people around here? Rig the test any way you want it! My insertion of the “plants” still shows a basic tenet of human behavior!
End of Story!!
Don’t put the plants in there! Run the […]

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That’s a very big question.

I think the easiest way to conceptualise the differences would be to start with the concept of ‘entrepreneurship’. Most media/publication exposure to the public for entrepreneurship is very ‘celebrity-like’, in the sense that you don’t often hear from failed ones, more you hear about successful ones describing their failures. There’s a serious amount of selection-bias in ‘making it work’, and it’s often a self-selected group, let alone other selection pressures – I think you’d probably find a fair amount of narcissism! I think the arena can be somewhat like acting, in that information the average […]

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Commentary with Geoff deGannes The province is acting on recommendations in a discussion paper by former Conservative senator Hugh Segal. Segal has suggested that the government provide a basic income of about $1,320 per month, and that the program be tested over three years in three different types of communities in Ontario.
Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government has promised to offer details this month about where and how the program would be tested in Ontario.
Federally, the House of Commons finance committee called on the federal government a year ago to consider a pilot study of its own.
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Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy , a comprehensive book by BIEN’s Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght, was published last month on Harvard University Press.

In honor of the launch of the book, Van Parijs has delivered several public lectures, beginning with events in Copenhagen, Denmark (March 28) and Stockholm, Sweden (March 30).

Copenhagen (Video Below) The former was part of a workshop on basic income organized by the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen in conjunction with two political parties, the Alternative and the Social Liberal Party, […]

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Finland was portrayed largely in a positive light in foreign media in 2016, indicates a survey conducted by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Finland’s education system, basic income experiment, appeal as a travel destination and possible membership in Nato were the most dominant themes in global media reports about the country in 2016, finds a survey conducted by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs . The reports portrayed the country largely in a favourable light, at times as an example to be followed. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs’ annual survey is based on diplomatic missions’ assessments of the content and […]

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At the World Economic Forum in January this year, four panelists were invited to talk about universal basic income (UBI): Professor Guy Standing (University of London), co-founder of BIEN and author of several books on UBI, Neelie Kroes , former minister in the Dutch Parliament, former EU commissioner, and current member of several boards, Amitabh Kant , CEO of the National Institution for Transforming India ( NITI Aayog ), and Professor Michael Sandel (Harvard University), author of “ What Money Can’t Buy, the Moral Limits of Markets ”.

According to Guy Standing, there has been much evidence gathered through foundational […]

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This article is part of a series of articles I am publishing examining Basic Income, the labour movement, automation, and the Left. I have already published a piece looking at the history of Basic Income and the labour movement, “ Basic Income or a reduced work week? An old labour debate .” The next article will examine the relationship between automation and Basic Income. Should the Left and labour support a demand for a Basic Income (BI)? This simple question has provoked a fervent and confusing debate.

The discussion over BI touches on real political and economic anxieties. The attack […]

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