“...a UBI is not a salve for a world of technological unemployment, or a powerful antipoverty measure, or a form of social dividend, or a way to boost the earnings of the working poor. Rather, it is all those things and more: a paradigmatic shift that would free people from having to do more work that they did not want to do at all. A UBI would, in essence, lop off the bottom of the psychologist Abraham Maslow's 'hierarchy of needs', where air, food, water, and shelter reside, with self-transcendence up at the other end. A UBI would give people the economic bandwidth to do what they wanted with their lives... Let the robots do the dirty work. Let the people do what they want.” PovertySocial JusticeEqualityUniversal Basic IncomeUbi Book:Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives Source: Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
“Here, poverty in the United States is a choice. Stagnant middle-class incomes are a choice. Technology-fueled mass unemployment is a choice. Racism is a choice. The patriarchy is a choice. This is not to discount how deeply entrenched existing policies, interests, and tendencies are - but to recognize that while they might be entrenched, they are not immutable.” ChangeEconomySocial JusticeEqualityActivismUbi Book:Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives Source: Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives