Basic Income
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All citizens receive a regular, liveable and unconditional sum of money. The recipient is not required to work or look for work, and the payment is given independently of any other income.
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Scott Santens Writer & Basic Income advocate
The question is not if technology is advanced enough to adopt it. The question is if UBI can advance tech. Basic income is the missing foundation upon which everything else should be built upon.Ralph Callebert History Professor, Virginia Tech
We usually focus on employment and production. Yet, much of the world’s population has no realistic prospects of employment, and we already produce more than what is sustainable. Basic income, however, separates survival from employment or production.Martin Wolf Chief economics commentator at the Financial Times
We will need to redistribute income and wealth. Such redistribution could take the form of a basic income for every adult, together with funding of education and training at any stage in a person’s lifeJeremy Howard Founder: fast.ai; Faculty: Singularity University; Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum
The pool of displaced workers will just keep growing exponentially, and the solution is to level the playing field.Chris Boos IT automation evangelist; CEO of arago , algorithm researcher,
The unconditional basic income is a way of shaping the necessary social change from preservation to new construction so as to become socially compatible.The Kawaii Suite 🌐 Look at me, being super famous with my 35 followers :3
Because I don't have to worry about waking up early in the morning and I value my free time so much.Anthony Painter Director of Policy and Strategy at the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts)
If you want to incentivise work at every level of income then Basic Income is simply the best system
Joe Williams Running for Congress in Santa Cruz, CA
What basic income does is set a floor, a monetary floor by which no one will fall below. So you want to guarantee that basic income for everybody.Jim Gilliam Founder and CEO of Nationbuilder
If we can enable a world of creators, the ROI on a basic income... it's just incomprehensible. It's so big.