According to one 2020 survey, some two-thirds of Australians currently support the idea of a Universal Basic Income in Australia. But what does this momentum mean in real life?
The idea of a Universal Basic Income —a liveable wage that gets disbursed to every adult member of society, no strings attached—has largely remained a utopian pipe dream since it was first suggested by “radical” thinkers Thomas Spence and Tom Paine in the late 1700s.
In recent years, though, pilot programmes have been rolled out in countries including Finland, Canada, the Netherlands, Iran, and Scotland. In 2016, Switzerland held a […]
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