Coulter’s article argues that low-wage work like that in slaughterhouses is detrimental to animal rights, and that poverty plays a direct role in continuing the factory farm culture of the food industry. Coulter then states that a basic income could lead people out of poverty and out of such damaging jobs.
Kendra Coulter, “Love Animals? Support Poverty Eradication and Humane Jobs”, Huffington Post, 3 March 2015.
In this video, David Graeber, Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, is interviewed about the rising idea that people have “pointless jobs” where they do not actually do much work. Graeber discusses the reasons behind these pointless jobs and claims that while they fail to make sense in a truly capitalistic setting, they do make sense within businesses where people may be more powerful if they have more people working under them. Graeber then goes on to explain why he believes a basic income could solve the problem by freeing people from these pointless jobs in order to pursue their passions.
New EU Commissioner, Marianne Thyssen, in an interview for Social Agenda magazine is asked “How can the EU Economic and Monetary Union become more social?” answering, in part “We should think in terms of minimum standards. For example, having a minimum income in every EU country, based on a reference budget.”
Social Agenda, “Marianne Thyssen, job creation and a fairer society (p23)”, Social Agenda, 23 December 2014
Bernard Marszalek, “The Economy Sucks, Now What? Basic Income or Job Guarantee”, CounterPunch, 06 January 2015
[Craig Axford
“Transitions for Society: Job Guarantee and Basic Income”, Prosocial Progress Foundation, October 14, 2014