BIEN working group for Clarification for BI Definition (BIEN CBID)
Online Open Forum
Date: 17 July, 9am -10.30am GMT
Speaker: Télémaque Masson-Récipon
Title: “How distinguishing between a ´narrow understanding´ and a
´broad understanding’ of the basic income concept can help contribute
to the realisation of both”
Abstract: What is a Basic Income ? What debates surround the way it
should be defined ? Why and how do any of these debates matter at all
in practice ? This presentation will try to answer these questions and
defend a proposal aiming at allowing ubi activism to benefit more
directly from these debates. It consist in distinguishing between on
the one hand a narrow understanding of UBI as a way to distribute
ressources (namely as an equal payment in cash to everyone within a
target group on a regular basis without any activity condition) ; and
on the other hand a broader understanding of UBI as the aspiration to
the universal and unconditional guarantee of the material means of
individual autonomy. The adoption of this analytical framework, it
will be argued, is likely to greatly improve the focus and efficiency
of ubi activism as well as to reopen very fertile fields of UBI
research that have been almost entirely neglected over the last two
decades.
Register: please send email to:
CBID cbidbien@gmail.com
Or
Toru Yamamori toruyamamori@gmail.com
Observation: The timing for this meeting makes it virtually impossible for any North American advocates to attend. It starts at 4am, for example, in my location in Eastern Ontario.
Question: Will it be archived for later viewing?
I had a problem to connect too, because of my job. Hope to see the meeting at least on video. Maybe than we can add a comment too. Thank You,
evamaria langer-dombrady from Hungary/Europe
You redefine in your presentation.
Changing ‘all people’ to ‘all people in a target group.’
Have you constructed a logical or moral argument against including each human being on the planet equally in a globally standard process of money creation?
That is a specific correction that enables local individualised and general corrections
UBI Initiative Rhein-Main, a regional activist group around Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has agreed on an even more “narrow” definition of UBI. We think it makes sense to advocate for a UBI which really would make a difference in terms of empowerment and emancipation.
Find the definition and my reasoning for it here:
https://bge-rheinmain.org/on-the-definition-of-unconditional-basic-income
Most of your points we agree too -in Hungary.
https://bge-rheinmain.org/what-is-universal-basic-income
Also our Think-Tank Working Group the “UBI-European Initive” stand close to this definition.
Good.
Some definitions are actually wrong, giving to governments the entire control of the basic income, including its use and distribution.
Basic income should be trated as a “human rigth” surpassing statate controls and forming part of an elevated human inherent category (v.g. Access to Internet in Finland).
Regards,
Jorge.