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A basic income guarantee is a system that regularly provides each citizen with a sum of money. Except for citizenship, a basic income is entirely unconditional.

A basic income guarantee would radically simplify the welfare state, and truly ensure that no one has to live in poverty. Its necessity will become increasingly obvious as more human labor is replaced by machines.

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What is Basic Income?

"A Basic Income is an income unconditionally granted to all on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement" (Basic Income Earth Network, (BIEN)).

Basic Income is alternately referred to as a guaranteed annual income, citizen's income, citizen's dividend, social dividend, negative income tax, and others. For more see:

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This is a community space for discussion and advocacy of Basic Income schemes, with four main goals:

Educate. Increase publicity and support for Basic Income schemes, and explain their benefits.

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Millionaires need a safety net too

They can lose their fortunes, go bankrupt, be scammed, get sick, etc.

It's not just for the "poor" who need money.

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2024/04/28
13:50 UTC
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Cancellation is harder with UBI

The recent protests at universities have underscored for me the precarity of even white collar work.

Professors (especially non-tenured ones, temp contract-based teaching staff, grad students etc) have well-founded fears for their professional futures when their university might all to well throw them under the bus for causing political embarrassment. This is also a byproduct of the fact that universities have become in many cases hedge funds with ancillary "schools" attached, whose coveted capital is not human capital but just plain old capital.

Undergraduate students also face a hard choice to voice their true feelings or not, faced with threats of losing one or two semesters of tuition, expulsion, etc.

Anyway. If your shtick is keeping people towing the line of the elites who hold the purse strings—the Robert Krafts and Bill Ackmanns of the world—then this situation is what you want to see. Fear! Fear of money being withdrawn! "Keep pecking out of our hands or else."

But if you don't like that then do take a look at basic income. It insulates you from the first-order threat of economic cancellation. It also gives you social license to exist absent a job in the first place.

3 Comments
2024/04/28
13:18 UTC
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The Guarantee: Inside The Fight For America’s Next Economy

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2024/04/27
15:09 UTC
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What do you guys think of this video?

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2024/04/27
03:18 UTC
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Money as Medicine – New England Journal of Medicine

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2024/04/26
15:41 UTC
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Why does everything get cheaper except houses?

Beyond the perceptions that "everything is more expensive", the data says otherwise on many subjects.

But the same does not happen with houses, in the data, in what others say, in reality, it is something expensive.

And this is one of the main problems as you know, also considering that the population will stabilize, even decrease, that would mean that the price of houses will decrease.

But something else happens, what is the "problem" with the price of houses, why is it still very expensive?

30 Comments
2024/04/25
23:32 UTC
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Call for Papers: FRIBIS Annual Conference 2024: Towards the Development of a Full UBI?

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2024/04/25
19:14 UTC
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Wealth Distribution, Fixing Healthcare, & UBI

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2024/04/24
16:46 UTC
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"Productivity" Is A Policy Choice (Pitchfork Economics Podcast)

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2024/04/24
13:45 UTC
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Seattle Pilot doubles employment rates

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2024/04/24
13:32 UTC
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How To Get Wealthy In An Economy Broken For Young People

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2024/04/23
20:29 UTC
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The Future Of The Sharing Economy & Universal Basic Income

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2024/04/23
18:38 UTC
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