The World Economic Forum, the club of the largest multinationals, has been promoting the idea of universal basic income worldwide for several years. Behind it is not philanthropy, but calculation of power and striving for profit. The overlaps with the campaigns against cash and for biometric identification are enormous.
A global basic income for all would be something like the crowning achievement of the mass surveillance programs that are already being promoted at the instigation or with the active help of the US government and the World Economic Forum. In these circles you think and plan big and very long-term. […]
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