Adam C. Brett, “The Super Depression is coming, and only Basic Income can prevent it.” Fix it or burn: the road to utopia, May 29, 2014
Ned Ludd via Fix It or Burn
PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY: ‘Philippe Van Parijs argues for a basic income for all legal residents of the European Union to be financed by Value Added Tax. Unlike the US, the EU lacks automatic inter-state transfers and migration between states is much less common. A universal basic income would serve as a buffering mechanism and enable a stronger recovery from economic downturns. It would also help the Union overcome the pressures of competitiveness, while the EU may also be seen as more legitimate and less of a heartless bureaucracy in the eyes of its residents.’
Philippe Van Parijs, “The Eurodividend: Why the EU should introduce a basic income for all”, LSE EUROPP Blog, 24th July 2013
Philippe Van Parijs
Dollar handcuffs (the Real Movement)
SUMMARY: This article is a communist criticism of basic income, concluding, “Basic income will be designed and implemented by the other class — your enemy — to meet its interests, not yours.”
Jehu “Basic Income: Which class will be writing the legislation?” The Real Movement: Communism is free time and nothing else, May 19, 2014
‘By way of addressing security beyond the workplace, [Standing’s] most compelling suggestion is a basic citizen’s income, payable to all, which would increase the bargaining power of people at the low end, and by cutting across the orthodox benefit systems’ serial poverty traps, actually increase the incentive to work. This idea has been circulating for at least 40 years, and may take just as long to arrive in mainstream debate. But if it seems outlandish by contemporary standards, that actually only heightens its appeal: the same, after all, was once said of the most basic aspects of the welfare state; and even the weekend.’
John Harris, “A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens – review”, The Guardian, 9th April 2014.
John Harris
PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY: “All around Europe, people are fighting for unconditional basic income: a system which many believe will instill equilibrium where there is financial inequality. World Finance invites Green Party Leader Natalie Bennett and writer and mathematician David Orrell to discuss whether unconditional basic income will live up to the revolutionaries’ expectations.”
VIDEO: “Unconditional basic income: Green Party’s Natalie Bennett debates its merits with David Orrell.” World Finance, May 19th, 2014
SUMMARY: This article discusses the Coca-Cola company’s mistreatment of its international workforce and concludes, “These are not the guardians of anyone’s welfare but their own. Basic income is that by which corporate largesse becomes unnecessary, and we are made our brother’s and sister’s keepers—whether we like it or not.”
David Jenkins, “Happiness is Coca Cola apparently.” Basic Income UK, May 16, 2014
Happiness is Coca Cola apparently -Basic Income UK
