“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex…It takes a
touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
– E.F. Schumacher
- Co-founder of the Basic Income March
- Organizer of Basic Income NYC, 2015 to 2019
- Social Worker
- Writer
People of Basic Income
What Would You Do?
Generally speaking, once we get used to something, it no longer worries us.
Guaranteed income would not only establish freedom as a reality rather than a slogan, it would also establish a principle deeply rooted in Western religious and humanist tradition: man has the right to live, regardless!
The assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he is unable to provide for himself, appears not only to be a wholly legitimate protection against a risk common to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born.
A certain small income, sufficient for necessities, should be secured for all, whether they work or not.
I am now convinced that the simplest solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a new widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
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