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Guy Standing Quotes

English - Actor | September 1, 1873 - February 24, 1937

A democratically governed national fracking fund should be set up, perhaps similar to what Norway and Alaska have. Areas of drilling should be rented to companies through public tender, with or without subsidies, and a rising share of profits beyond a negotiated upper limit should be deposited in the national capital fund.

Beyond Alaska Rising Limit Without

Capital is taxed much less than labour; subsidies going to capital, the rich, and middle-income earners greatly exceed the benefits going to the precariat and underclass.

Rich Going Capital Benefits Than

The Magna Carta was the first class-based charter, enforced on the monarchy by the rising class.

Class First Rising Monarchy Enforced

The precariat is today's mass class, which is both dangerous, in rejecting old political party agendas, and transformative, in wanting to become strong enough to be able to abolish itself, to abolish the conditions of insecurity and inequality that define it.

Today Insecurity Strong Political

Since the crash of 2008 and during the neoliberal retrenchment known as austerity, many commentators have muttered that the left is dead, watching social democrats in their timidity lose elections and respond by becoming ever more timid and neoliberal. They deserve their defeats.

Lose Deserve Dead More Watching

Politicians should reflect on the well-documented fact that fearful, insecure people lose their sense of tolerance and altruism.

People Tolerance Lose Altruism Sense

We need a new model of social protection. Let us accept that jobs are not the magic solution - and that in a globalised market, job guarantees are a false promise. Let us accept flexible labour, too. But in return, let us have a society in which everybody has a right to basic security and a more equal access to other insurance-based schemes.

Job Society Solution Magic Security

A multi-tier social protection system must be based on a modest basic income so as to enable the precariat to build lives involving a balance of different types of work, not just labour in jobs.

Work Balance Build Protection System

Since all political parties blame the others for the economic mess, it is unfair to attribute unemployment to individual behaviour.

Blame Political Unfair Others Mess

Workfare will merely accentuate the growth of the low-paying, insecure labour market.

Growth Will Market Labour Insecure

Sanctions and workfare make it easier for employers to impose insecure practices on desperate people.

People Make Desperate Easier Impose

Retraining for the precariat is stressful and demoralising; often, they learn new tricks only to find them obsolescent or unwanted.

Learn Find New Unwanted Only Often

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