Category: Basic Income

Acvitists from "Generation Grundeinkommen" (Generation Basic Income) dump 8 million Swiss 5-cent coins in the main square in Bern, Switzerland, to celebrate a successful petition for a referendum to incorporate Basic Income in the Swiss constitution. However, it was later rejected in a referendum. Recently the idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) has gained a lot of traction in Left circles in the UK, with calls for Jeremy Corbyn to adopt it and try and make it Labour party policy. This morning, I saw an article on Medium by Frances Coppola, Why the changing nature of work means […]

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The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture , a non-governmental organization that promotes “programs and policies that cultivate creativity, empathy, and collaboration”, released a new platform on November 19, 2016 — aimed at protecting Americans’ right to culture under a Trump presidency.

The platform consists of 10 policy demands — from a public service jobs program to criminal justice reform to investment in arts education — including a basic income grant.

About the basic income grant, the USDAC writes (pp. 22-23): [R]ising costs, falling spending-power, the uncertainty of the economy, macroeconomic policies that have placed corporate success above individual well-being. For […]

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>He is a hippie leftest
>He is "bi"–has sex with dudes more often than with girls
>Smokes weed er’day
>Smokes some kind of crystal that is apparently "synthesized weed extract">Works a very hard manual labour industrial job>Believes in free basic incomeWhat the fuck is wrong with him? He’s a nice guy who is very generous and trusting, but something isn’t right in his weed addled brain. I confronted him about it, about how his tax dollars taken off his manual labour job check is going towards people abusing the system, and he just spouted a whole bunch of hippie […]

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Jonathan Bartley, the new (Sept 2016) Joint Leader of the Green Party will be on Radio 4 ‘Question Time’ next Friday. Here are some hints from an old hand.

Judging from the hustings which we shared in July and August, he will be an able representative of the Green Party who will enhance its credibility in the minds of the general public. But will he say any of the things which I thought we founded the Green Party in 1973 precisely in order to say, and which no one else will say? Here are some suggestions:

General background The Green […]

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FILE -A huge poster is pictured on the Plaine de Plainpalais square in Geneva, Switzerland. ( Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP) Switzerland – Swiss voters rejected by a wide margin on Sunday a proposal to introduce a guaranteed basic income for everyone living in the wealthy country after an uneasy debate about the future of work at a time of increasing automation.

Supporters had said introducing a monthly income of 2,500 Swiss francs ($2,563) per adult and 625 francs per child under 18 no matter how much they work would promote human dignity and public service.

Opponents, including the government, said it […]

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Money for all Universal Basic Income (UBI) proposals are gaining in popularity across the political spectrum. However most people don’t fully understand what a basic income is or how it would work. Vita International asked to James Boyce of the PERI, the Political Economic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts what UBI really means.

Scotland could roll out a universal basic income pilot which would not only mitigate against income insecurity but tackle poverty. Countries like Finland, Switzerland, and the Netherlands are preparing to test out a universal basic income . The Canadian province of Ontario will […]

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basic income means basic needs

basic food, basic water, basic shelter.
People would still need to work for things like a better place to live, a car, a family.Basic income is keeping ahead of the automation curve. Less people are going to need to work in the future.Sure there will be parasites, but that’s not going to change no matter what you do. This would give people more freedom in choosing to do what they want to do, instead of what they have to do. People tend to be more productive when they do things they […]

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Free basic income would seem bad in all forms at first, however… It wouldn’t be the first progressive idea to be taken on by conservatives. A group of Bundestag members in the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have proposed offering parents a basic state income — independent of their own financial situation. The fixed monthly payment, the exact amount of which was not mentioned, would be tied to child care costs and would be subject to social insurance contributions. The payment, part of what the CDU calls its “family pact,” would also be paid out from birth until the child […]

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