Category: Basic Income

At the party’s congress on December 17th, members of Dutch political party Green Left (“ Groen Links ”) were given the opportunity to vote on amendments to its election program. This document will be released soon, in advance of the country’s parliamentary elections, which will be held on March 15th, 2017.

In the draft version of the election program, a basic income was only mentioned as a possible means to reform the social welfare system.

Two amendments concerning a universal basic income (UBI) were voted on at the party’s congress: > Implementation of a UBI “Green Left supports the (eventual) implementation […]

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Universal Basic Income

The concept of a universal basic income (UBI) paid to citizens regardless if they are employed or not, is becoming popular in the West as well as some parts of the world. Finland recently began a pilot scheme, where it pays 2000 Fins approx. US$ 600 per month, with no strings attached. It is also being tested in other countries, some dating back to the seventies.

This is not a new concept. It was popularized by Thomas Paine, one of the thinkers in the American War of Independence, at the end of the eighteenth century. The basis […]

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What Is It?

If you haven’t already heard of the Universal Basic Income, then you’re in for a treat! There’s been talk of nations providing their citizens with one universal unconditional income. Whilst some countries like Australia currently adopt the welfare system, the Universal Basic Income would override all of them.

The idea isn’t new and can be traced back to at least the 1700s in varying forms and has been thought to be a way of reducing poverty. If you had a guaranteed basic income, would you still work? This is one of the biggest arguments against such a […]

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In the city where Adam Smith developed the free-market theories that inspired Thatcherism nearly 300 years later, a young Labour politician is pursuing an economic vision that takes a drastically different approach to “the wealth of nations”. Councillor Matt Kerr, an anti-poverty specialist on Glasgow city council, has been exploring how people become enslaved by poverty – and how they can escape it.

A meeting in Glasgow last month with Guy Standing, the radical economist who founded the Basic Income Earth Network , inspired Kerr to seek cross-party support to pilot a “universal basic income” in parts of Fife and […]

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Welfare and welfare states have been constants in the socio-economic affairs of modern-day nation states, at least from the time of Otto Von Bismarck’s Germany (formerly Prussia). Since then, there has been a gradual move towards establishing a welfare-oriented state. One of the major attractions of the industrialised West – for those who migrate to these regions – is the welfare-based nature of society and government.

Politicians, dictators and those who govern swear by it. It forms a basis of the slogans of all the parties competing for a right to govern (it’s another matter that they rarely follow up […]

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In the city where Adam Smith developed the free-market theories that inspired Thatcherism nearly 300 years later, a young Labour politician is pursuing an economic vision that takes a drastically different approach to “the wealth of nations”. Councillor Matt Kerr, an anti-poverty specialist on Glasgow city council, has been exploring how people become enslaved by poverty – and how they can escape it.

A meeting in Glasgow last month with Guy Standing, the radical economist who founded the Basic Income Earth Network , inspired Kerr to seek cross-party support to pilot a “universal basic income” in parts of Fife and […]

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https://thebossmagazine.com/finland-india-universal-basic-income/

Finland is the first country to implement universal basic income scheme at a national level to reduce unemployment and poverty.

Ubi, basic universal income, universale wage, basic income, what is basic income, universal basic, universal basic incomeUniversal basic income (UBI)—an unconditional weekly or monthly cash payment provided to every human being, without the requirement to work—is an emerging concept thanks to countries trialling the concept, like Finland and India .Finland Is the First Country to Start Paying Basic Income On January 1, 2017, Finland became the first country in the world to pay a free basic income to randomly-picked […]

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In my last post I talked about how automation technologies will lead to mass unemployment and that we would need to change our socio-economic structure in the wake of robots taking away our jobs.

Many solutions have been suggested but till now, Universal Basic Income seems like the most viable option. As I explained in my previous post, a UBI is a system in which the state regularly pays you an unconditional some of money, meaning you get paid for being a citizen basically.

It sounds too good to be true and if enough money can be paid to all citizens, […]

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