Pat Kane argues: “A basic income may be the way to support those displaced by robots and automation to develop their machine-resistant skills. It might also need a collective revaluing of those caring and creative skills in the first place. Which small nation can you think of that might be capable of such a patient and sustained revaluing? Right, first time.”
Pat Kane, “Terminal Redundancy in Digital Age”. The Scotsman, 26 January 2015.
Liz Ely argues that although BIG ‘by itself would end gender inequality or prevent violence against women’, first ‘it could prevent financial abuse’; secondly ‘it could support women to leave abusive relationship’; and thirdly ‘it could prevent commercial sexual exploitation’. She is a feminist comedian and activist based in Edinburgh.
Liz Ely, “Three ways a citizen’s income could help prevent men’s violence against women,” A blog from Zero Tolerance. 3 Feb 2015.
Professor Alisa McKay had been a feminist and a vocal advocate of BIG. She was not only a good academic but also a good campaigner. She died 5th March 2014. An obituary by Anne Miller is published in “Citizen’s Income Newsletter, Issue 2, 2014”. The commemorative conference for her took place in 22 and 23 January 2015, at Glasgow Caledonian University where she held her professorship.
ITV news index released on 2nd March 2015 shows 36% of citizens is in favor of BIG. ComRess interviewed 2013 British adults online between 27th February and 1st March. They asked questions on policies of political parties including a citizen’s income proposal by the Green Party. It shows: Support 36%; Oppose 40%; Don’t Know 23%. More details can be read at:
https://www.comres.co.uk/polls/itv-news-index-green-party-poll/
https://www.comres.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ITV-News-Index_2nd-March-2015.pdf
Yvonne Roberts argues that ‘the unthinkable’ would not become ‘the eminently reasonable’ unless ‘female electoral disengagement’ would stop. She includes BIG along with free universal childcare, and so on, in her list of ‘the unthinkable’.
Yvonne Roberts, “Why Women Need a Stronger Voice in Politics”, the Guardian, 5 April.
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