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" A rich and diverse commons lowers the cost of living for those who use it. And throughout history, it has been those on low incomes who gain most from the commons. "
Guy Standing
Living
Rich
Low
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" The precariatised mind is one without anchors, flitting from subject to subject, in the extreme suffering from attention deficit disorder. But it is also nomadic in its dealings with other people. "
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People
Suffering
Mind
" Every time a government minister or spokesman lauds Magna Carta, let us boo or hiss. Shame them. And let us celebrate what it really means to our history: the ability of an emerging class to make demands against the state for new liberties and rights. "
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History
Celebrate
Time
" Growth in village economies is often ignored. It should not be. "
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Village
Growth
Ignored
" If I care for an elderly relative without payment, it is not work, is not counted in national income, and, as it is not labour, is not counted as work. Should my neighbour pay me to do precisely the same tasks, it would contribute to economic growth. "
Guy Standing
Care
Elderly
Growth
" Using political power, the elite can induce local authorities to facilitate enclosure and privatisation of land, water, and other hitherto public amenities. And they can pressurise public administrations to cut taxes, reducing financial resources for maintaining the remaining commons. "
Guy Standing
Land
Water
Power
" The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights - cultural, civil, social, economic, and political. "
Guy Standing
First
History
Losing
" A multi-tier social protection system must be based on a modest basic income so as to enable the precariat to build lives involving a balance of different types of work, not just labour in jobs. "
Guy Standing
System
Protection
Build
" The World Bank and others have been converted to conditional cash transfers (CCT). These provide poor people with cash on condition they send their children to school and for medical treatment. "
Guy Standing
Medical
Children
School
" Every progressive movement has been built on the anger, needs, and aspirations of the emerging major class. "
Guy Standing
Progressive
Class
Anger
" Globalisation, technological change, and the move to flexible labour markets has channelled more and more income to rentiers - those owning financial, physical, or so-called intellectual property - while real wages stagnate. "
Guy Standing
Intellectual
Change
Financial
" If you had a basic income, it would mean that everybody would have a base on top of which their earned income would be taxed at the standard rate of tax. That would increase the incentive to take low-wage jobs. "
Guy Standing
Top
Take
Mean
" What we can say with confidence is that the technological revolution is worsening inequality, due mostly to mechanisms that limit free markets. It is also bringing about disruptive change that is intensifying insecurity and may indeed lead to large-scale labor displacement. "
Guy Standing
Revolution
Free
Confidence
" People in the precariat rely very heavily on money wages. "
Guy Standing
Very
Money
Rely
" Most existing national capital funds have been built up from royalties from oil and other minerals. They need not be limited that way. Most are anything but democratic. That could be changed. "
Guy Standing
Anything
Most
Need
" Politicians should reflect on the well-documented fact that fearful, insecure people lose their sense of tolerance and altruism. "
Guy Standing
Lose
People
Politicians
" In 1936, John Maynard Keynes predicted the 'euthanasia of the rentier' before the end of the 20th century. It did not happen. "
Guy Standing
Before
Happen
Euthanasia
" The IP system is an artificial construct that excessively rewards owners of intellectual property, granting them monopolies over inventions and ideas that, in many cases, are the product of generations of thinkers and/or publicly funded research. "
Guy Standing
Ideas
Intellectual
Product
" Politicians seem desperate to appeal to their respective versions of the so called 'middle class,' unable to empathise with the precariat and eager to dream up fresh and tougher sanctions against society's wounded. "
Guy Standing
Class
Society
Politicians
" In financial affairs and dealings with the state, those in the precariat are disadvantaged since they are usually less well-informed and have to do much more to satisfy demands made on them if they want to gain meagre state benefits. "
Guy Standing
Want
Less
Financial
" Across Europe, not just in the U.K., the old Beveridge and Bismarckian variants of the welfare state have been dismantled. In their place has been erected a mish-mash of means-tested, behaviour-tested social assistance, with a growing tendency to force young unemployed into workfare schemes, which are helping to depress real wages. "
Guy Standing
Force
Place
Young
" Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts. "
Guy Standing
Modern
Think
Economics
" Public social services, infrastructural policies, and so on are vital. But a basic income should be part of a package of reforms. "
Guy Standing
Public
Social
Income
" In the old 20th-century income distribution system, the shares of income going to capital, mainly in profits, and labor, in wages and non-wage benefits, were roughly stable. But that system is no more. "
Guy Standing
Wages
More
Old
" If you're healthier, you tend to have a lower demand for health services. "
Guy Standing
Health
You
Lower
" People want to work, but they don't want to necessarily want to do labour. "
Guy Standing
People
Necessarily
Want
" Successive governments in the U.K. have worked to create a more flexible labour market, which also meant labour insecurity. They allowed wages to drop and non-wage benefits to shrivel, creating worse inequality than statistics reveal. "
Guy Standing
Inequality
More
Statistics
" The precariat has been losing cultural rights in that those in it feel they cannot and do not belong to any community that gives them secure identity or a sense of solidarity and reciprocity, of mutual support. "
Guy Standing
Community
Identity
Support
" Workfare will merely accentuate the growth of the low-paying, insecure labour market. "
Guy Standing
Labour
Will
Growth
" In the interests of competitiveness in a globalizing world economy, governments of all complexions introduced labour-market reforms that promoted flexibility but accentuated the precariat's insecurities. "
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Flexibility
Interests
World
" The precariat consists of a growing proportion of our total society. It is being habituated to accept a life of unstable labour and unstable living. Often they're unable to say what their occupation is, because what they're doing now might be quite different from what they were doing three months ago. "
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Growing
Life
Living