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GITURA MWAURA Given the interest it has generated worldwide, it is certain the idea of Universal Basic Income (UBI) has gained some traction, promising a more practical solution to address poverty and inequality.

UBI assures every person – the employed and unemployed, the rich and poor – a small income to cover basic living costs and no questions asked.

Anthropologist James Ferguson, in his book Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution , captures it best. As the title of the book suggests, he turns around the compelling Chinese proverb, “Give a man a fish and […]

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The American workforce is going to change dramatically as robots and automation continue to take the place of humans. To combat that, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar has pledged nearly half a million dollars to test a universal basic income program.

The cash will come from the Omidyar Network, the tech mogul’s philanthropic investment firm and be doled out to people living in Kenya through a program called GiveDirectly. The money will be used to run a 12-year pilot program to test the feasibility of universal basic income.

Through the program, a group of 6,000 Kenyan citizens will be granted regular stipends […]

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A month into Finland’s experiment with a basic income, the idea is taking criticism from an unexpected source: The country’s largest labour union.

"We think it takes social policy in the wrong direction,” Ilkka Kaukoranta, chief economist at the Central Organization of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK), told Bloomberg . The union’s membership of 1 million includes more than one out of every five people in Finland.

But supporters of a basic income say unions are simply afraid of losing membership, should the idea be implemented. Pedestrians crossing a street in Helsinki, Finland. The country’s government is running two-year a trial of […]

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PhD fellowship in the field of Basic Income: Rethinking citizenship and societal participation (5+3)

The Graduate School at Arts, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University invites applications for a fully-funded PhD fellowship in Basic Income: Rethinking citizenship and societal participation provided the necessary funding is available. This PhD fellowship is available as of 1 September 2017 for a period of up to three years (5+3). The candidate who is awarded the fellowship must commence his/her PhD degree programme on 1 September 2017.

The PhD fellowship will be financed by Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF).In recent years Basic Income has arisen across […]

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Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said he was pleasantly surprised by the interest shown by some states in the universal basic income, which the Economic Survey has proposed as an alternative to the existing regime of subsidies and welfare schemes.

Earlier, Jaitley had said while universal basic income was a good idea, it was somewhat futuristic and needed a mature political debate. “I think UBI is an idea worth considering. One of the chief ministers met me today and said he is willing to start a pilot project in his state to roll out universal basic income,” Jaitley said […]

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The French Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, Ségolène Royal, has expressed some support for Socialist candidate Benoît Hamon’s basic income proposal, and noted that the idea has been “unjustly caricatured”.

As recently covered by Basic Income News, Hamon’s proposal involves introducing an unconditional basic income of 600 euro per month for young people in 2018, before eventually rolling out to all citizens and increasing to 750 euro per month.

In a television interview for France 3, Royal had the following to say: “I find that this idea has been unjustly characterised. Eminent economists have shown that it’s not about […]

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The world is watching as Finland’s basic income experiment proceeds. For another two years 2,000 unemployed Finns will receive EUR 560 per month with no strings attached, to answer the age-old question (or at least as old as the 60’s) of whether scrapping the paperwork and adopting universal basic income could be an alternative to the classic welfare system’s complex distribution of financial support.

Finland’s largest trade union – the Central Organization of Finnish Trade Unions, SAK – has declared that the experiment will not shake its conviction that basic income is ‘unworkable, uneconomical and ultimately useless’, as Bloomberg writes […]

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>> >>111862037
>You realize the redistribution of wealth is socialism, right?
No, for fuck’s sake. Socialism is the SOCIALIZATION of the means of production, wealth inequality can still technically exist under socialism, for fuck’s sake.

>Implying the understand the difference between Communism with Leninism>Implying you even know what Communism meansYou’ve already demonstrated you don’t even know what socialism is, so why are you talking on the subject matter? >>111862002 >>111862095 Read both parts of this:http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.htmlIt’s not a complete summary but it’s written simply enough that maybe you’ll actually fucking read it. >> >>111863312 What skills do they learn? You seem […]

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New Delhi, Feb 9:

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said that in the global scenario where economies were turning protectionist, India stands out as the only economy doing reforms. “We stand out as the only economy doing reforms because the rest are going towards protectionism,” Jaitley said here at the 96th annual session of Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham).

He listed opening of foreign direct investment in various sectors, Aadhaar legislation, Direct Benefit Transfer, demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the series of latest reforms.“India is prepared for reforms much more than […]

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Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar is the latest tech bigwig to get behind the concept. His philanthropic investment firm, the Omidyar Network, announced Wednesday that it will give nearly half a billion dollars to a group testing the policy in Kenya.

Universal basic income is the notion that a government should guarantee every citizen a yearly sum of money, no strings attached. The thinking is that such a program would relieve economic stress as automation technology severely reduces the demand for labor.

Theories along these lines have existed for centuries, but their proponents have never had much luck convincing governments to give […]

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