Wrote my first article on basic income, any feedback you have is most appreciated :)

[https://medium.com/@dbarbulescu/why-the-eu-should-adopt-a-form-of-universal-basic-income-now-d204b8edacaa?source=friends\_link&sk=66088d03ce727ead45654e17f643cfa8](https://medium.com/@dbarbulescu/why-the-eu-should-adopt-a-form-of-universal-basic-income-now-d204b8edacaa?source=friends_link&sk=66088d03ce727ead45654e17f643cfa8)

<div class="md"><p>Wrote my first article on basic income, any feedback you have is most appreciated :)</p>

<p><a href="https://medium.com/@dbarbulescu/why-the-eu-should-adopt-a-form-of-universal-basic-income-now-d204b8edacaa?source=friends_link&amp;sk=66088d03ce727ead45654e17f643cfa8">https://medium.com/@dbarbulescu/why-the-eu-should-adopt-a-form-of-universal-basic-income-now-d204b8edacaa?source=friends_link&amp;sk=66088d03ce727ead45654e17f643cfa8</a></p>
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Why the EU should adopt a form of Universal Basic Income NOW

[UK] Petition for Universal Basic Income during the Covid-19 Crisis

Animated Summary of Andrew Yang's book 'The War on Normal People'

when put in a nutshell, one stream of cash to fund a universal basic income is finance transaction taxation - what if anyone could participate in high-frequency trading, thus generating a constant source of revenue?

I mean, it doesn't make things better, it's just "the big guys are doing it, why can't we?"

<div class="md"><p>when put in a nutshell, one stream of cash to fund a universal basic income is finance transaction taxation - what if anyone could participate in high-frequency trading, thus generating a constant source of revenue?</p>

<p>I mean, it doesn&#39;t make things better, it&#39;s just &quot;the big guys are doing it, why can&#39;t we?&quot;</p>
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Levelling the field: Generating basic income from high-frequency trading

GiveDirect Platform: The story of Alice, Bob, Eve and the Hurricane (or BI, or Gov. Services or any remittance)!

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What is GiveDirect and how it could help BI in Europe...

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I have just received confirmation of our guest speaker for the April meeting. His name is Luke Haywood, and he is a Research Associate in the department of Public Economics in the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). His key fields of research are Labour Economics, Public Economics, Applied Microeconometrics, including papers on Basic Income.

"Basic Income: an Economic Perspective" talk and Q&A with Luke Haywood

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The Case for a Universal Basic Income

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Unconditional Basic Income Europe: Strategy 2015-2020

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I'm looking for text where Habermas explicitly discusses basic income. I've looked up a few things in english, without any specific support to UBI. Could you please hep me search into other languages (german in particular)? Thanks


<div class="md"><p>I&#39;m looking for text where Habermas explicitly discusses basic income. I&#39;ve looked up a few things in english, without any specific support to UBI. Could you please hep me search into other languages (german in particular)? Thanks</p>
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Does Jürgen Habermas support basic income?

Sweden - Basic income increasingly taken seriously but media remains mostly sceptical

European campaign on Quantitative Easing for People is launched

Belgium - European Parliament: first meeting of working group on minimum income

Italy - Public Gatherings in 200 Squares Across Italy for guaranteed income and dignity, June 2015

United Kingdom - Review of "Social Policy: Theory and Practice," by Paul Spicker

Spain - Podemos reintroduces basic income in its electoral program

Switzerland - Daniel Häni, Philip Kovce - Was fehlt, wenn alles da ist? (What’s missing if everything is there?)

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