For several months, ‘Basic Income’ has been discussed to a great extent in Germany. For those who aren’t familiar with the concept…..on paper and via university thesis projects over the past decade, it’s been this idea that you could bring people under a national umbrella…..where you’d assign an amount of money to them (everything for home, kids, utilities, food, etc) in one simple payment, and it doesn’t matter if you work or not…..you get that ‘check’ each month.
The key piece to the German enthusiasm now (at least from the far left groups)? Well….they want it to be unconditional. That […]
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