English - Actor | September 1, 1873 - February 24, 1937
A primary justification for a basic income is social justice.
Guy Standing
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The precariat can be divided into three further groups - atavists, who look back to a lost past; nostalgics, who look forlornly for a present, a home; and progressives, who look for a lost future.
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Corporations and financiers have used their growing influence to induce governments and international organizations to construct a global framework of institutions and regulations that enable elites to maximize their rental income.
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The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights - cultural, civil, social, economic, and political.
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The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing.
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Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.
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Nobody should be allowed to fund political parties unless they pay at least 30% tax on all income above the median wage. If that rule applied, the Tory party would be bankrupted overnight.
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Every time a government minister or spokesman lauds Magna Carta, let us boo or hiss. Shame them. And let us celebrate what it really means to our history: the ability of an emerging class to make demands against the state for new liberties and rights.
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The World Bank and others have been converted to conditional cash transfers (CCT). These provide poor people with cash on condition they send their children to school and for medical treatment.
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The primary value of a basic income would be its emancipatory effect.
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Public social services, infrastructural policies, and so on are vital. But a basic income should be part of a package of reforms.
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If the scale of gas is anything like the claims made by its advocates, it has major implications for the economy and British society. Besides its worrying environmental aspects, it could have adverse effects on income distribution.
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