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Universal Basic Income . Photo credit: planeta Europe’s New Social Reality: the Case Against Universal Basic Income / D Sage , P Diamond – 2017

If one factor explains Benoît Hamon’s insurgent victory in France’s Socialist party presidential primary it is the attention and support he gained by enthusiastically placing the idea of a universal basic income (UBI) at the centre of his campaign. Indeed, as the centre left searches for a big idea that can capture the public imagination, UBI has rapidly become widely fashionable. Experiments in different form of a basic income are also either running or […]

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Image by © Glen Stubbe/ZUMA Press/Corbis Given his reputation for favoring even wildly impractical progressive policy objectives, few might have guessed that the first prominent liberal to stand athwart the Democratic Party’s reckless lurch to the left would be Joe Biden. With liberals fawning over progressives firebrands and amid the growing unanimity around the notion that there is no social and economic challenge that cannot be solved by throwing money at it, the former vice president has emerged as a vocal opponent of at least one idea popular among liberal reformers and libertarian technocrats alike: a universal basic income.

“The […]

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The notion of getting paid without having to earn it — at a first thought at least — sounds like a wonderful idea.

While the world seems to slowly move towards that direction, progress is quite hesitant and cautious.

The notion has gathered strong, relevant followers, including billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk who said, while speaking in Dubai last April, that basic income is “ going to be necessary ” (Musk, 2017), with the rise of automation allegedly swiping millions of jobs along the way.Basic income is defined as a “periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual […]

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Was it Madison who noted that once the voters realized they could vote themselves benefits from the public treasury, it was all over?

Socialism will be successful this time. The wrong people have always implemented it in the dozens of times it’s been tried before.

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25-27 SEPTEMBER 2017, LISBON

IMPLEMENTING A BASIC INCOMEBIEN CONGRESSB IENC ON GR ESS38:30 – 12:309:00 – 9:309:30 – 10:1510:15 – 10:3010:30 – 12:30REGISTRATIONWELCOME WORDS AND INTRODUCTION TO THE PROGRAM Chair: Gonçalo Marcelo (Basic Income – Portugal / University of Coimbra / Católica Porto) Sara Bizarro (Basic Income-Portugal / Centre for Ethics, Politics & Society, University of Minho / USBIG) Representative of the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity, and Social Security Karl Widerquist (BIEN Vice-Chair, United States)Room: Auditorium “Sala do Senadoâ€KEYNOTE ADDRESS Chair: Roberto Merrill (Basic Income-Portugal / Centre for Ethics, Politics & Society, University of Minho) Guy Standing (UK), The […]

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© Getty Images Former Vice President Joe Biden is criticizing the universal basic income idea that is gaining traction in Silicon Valley, and is arguing instead that the U.S. needs to "build a future that puts work first."

"Our children and grandchildren deserve the promise we’ve had: the skills to get ahead, the chance to earn a paycheck, and a steady job that rewards hard work," Biden wrote in a blog post for the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware.

Some prominent voices in the technology industry, such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff, have recently […]

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Alaska residents filing applications for their Permanent Fund payments in Anchorage, Alaska, last year.
Source: Rashah McChesney, "Alaskans Weigh in on This Year’s Smaller Dividend Check," ktoo.org, Sep. 23, 2016 A universal basic income (UBI) is an unconditional cash payment given at regular intervals by the government to all residents, regardless of their earnings or employment status. Pilot UBI programs have taken place or are ongoing in the United States, Brazil, Canada, Finland, and other parts of the world. In 2017, Hawaii passed legislation creating a working group to study UBI. In that same year, 77% of Swiss […]

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