Category: Basic Income

A resignation, a cabinet shuffle and a prorogation all within 24 hours. Do you need any more evidence of a government in chaos and crisis?

The surprise booting of Bill Morneau from the finance portfolio in Justin Trudeau’s government was followed by the less than surprising appointment of Chrystia Freeland as his replacement.

Freeland will now act as finance minister and retain her position as deputy prime minister, although she has relinquished her intergovernmental affairs role – mostly dealing with the premier.On Tuesday, the surprise wasn’t Freeland’s appointment — Trudeau leans heavily on the MP from Toronto’s tony Rosedale neighbourhood. No, […]

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DAILY MAVERICK / 18 AUGUST 2020 – 13.22 / NAUDE MALAN A universal basic income grant is a deep ideological shift towards individualism, and its material effects will lead to very deep social and cultural changes. It could change the basic structure of our economy.

South Africa is considering a basic income grant (BIG) again. A basic income grant, particularly one that pays out generously above the minimum needed to live is likely to affect the entire social security system and all social policy profoundly. Its design and features will have effects on family life, housing, education, health, migration […]

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She couldn’t believe what she was reading. Yvonne should get a thousand euros every month. Without doing anything for it. Friends asked about the hook. They found none.

Yvonne has been working as a policewoman in a town in Brandenburg for three years. It issues parking tickets if someone parks in the no-parking zone and controls barriers for filming. “I’m in the air every day. I really enjoy the job, but now I’ve got problems with my feet and legs. ”That’s why the 53-year-old uses her luck from the money she’s given. But not for a break or resignation. She […]

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Our current economic system is built on exploiting low and middle income workers to benefit the wealthy. We know we need […]

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A long-term study with 1500 people researches the unconditional basic income. What its fans are hiding: The state doesn’t have the money for it.

Shopping street in Berlin Photo: Jochen Eckel / Imago

The dream is as old as humanity: the dream of a land of milk and honey. Nobody has to work, but the stomach fills itself. Now this fairy tale seems to come true; “Unconditional basic income” is what it says today. Every citizen should receive 1,200 euros a month. From the state, net.As nice as this idea is: the state doesn’t have this money. Around 83 million people […]

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Famed Economist Thomas Sowell has long remarked that “Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” He might need to add Millennials to this paltry list.

A recent Bloomberg opinion column by Andreas Kluth argues that the economic hardships stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic are “turning Millennials into socialists.” Arguing that younger generations “keep getting shafted by our country’s existing policies,” Kluth fear Millennials have inadvertently fallen “prey to political snake oil such as rent controls or wealth taxes” and are calling for more government control into our lives.

Kluth […]

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A mother with her baby in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. (Photo: David Harrison) A universal basic income grant is a deep ideological shift towards individualism, and its material effects will lead to very deep social and cultural changes. It could change the basic structure of our economy.

South Africa is considering a basic income grant (BIG) again. A basic income grant, particularly one that pays out generously above the minimum needed to live is likely to affect the entire social security system and all social policy profoundly.

Its design and features will have effects on family life, housing, education, health, […]

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American exceptionalism. We are the best. The greatest country on Earth. Gold medal winners all. Right?

Turns out we’re exceptionally the best at leading the world in COVID deaths, infections, hospitalizations. Not just by a little bit. We have close to 200 times more per capita cases than China. We are less than 5% of the World’s population, but we have 25% of the cases.

COVID is proving the failure of the American Experiment. The “American dream,” the cult of the individual, the Horatio Alger pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, I built this by myself, story. The dream is a myth and its logical […]

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