Piketty: Basic income, a job guarantee, and inheritance for all must all be implemented

Piketty: Basic income, a job guarantee, and inheritance for all must all be implemented

Covid has given the world a moment to re-evaluate our relationship to work, life and social justice. How can we create new policies to meet these new times?

By: THOMAS PIKETTY (LeMonde)

The Covid crisis is forcing us to rethink the tools of redistribution and solidarity. Proposals are springing up everywhere: basic income, job guarantee, inheritance for all. Let’s say it straight away: these proposals are complementary and not substitutable. In the long run, they must all be implemented, in stages and in this order. Let’s start with basic income. Such a system is dramatically lacking today, especially in the […]

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