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" People, in general, want to improve their lives and the lives of their children and other loved ones. "
Guy Standing
Want
People
Children
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" People in the precariat rely very heavily on money wages. "
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" Public social services, infrastructural policies, and so on are vital. But a basic income should be part of a package of reforms. "
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" Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The precariat can be divided into three further groups - atavists, who look back to a lost past; nostalgics, who look forlornly for a present, a home; and progressives, who look for a lost future. "
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Lost
" 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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Mind
" The primary value of a basic income would be its emancipatory effect. "
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Income
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" Globalisation began what should be called the Great Convergence, creating a globalising labour market in which wages in emerging market economies slowly converge with wages in rich economies, generating a steady drop in real wages across Europe. "
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Drop
" The claim that if people had a basic income they would become lazy is prejudiced and has been refuted many times in many places. "
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Lazy
Claim
" I don't see basic income as a panacea, but we must have a new income distribution system. The old one has broken down irretrievably. "
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Old
New
" The Magna Carta was the first class-based charter, enforced on the monarchy by the rising class. "
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First
Monarchy
" Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity. "
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Action
Best
" 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. "
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Top
Take
Mean
" The income distribution system constructed in the 20th century has broken down, and it will not come back. "
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Will
Down
" Millions of people in many so-called democratic countries have lost the right to vote, or never obtain it. And millions clearly feel that the political mainstream is not articulating a vocabulary or policies oriented to their needs and aspirations. "
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Lost
" The evidence shows if you give people security, they become better people. They develop their talents. They become better citizens. "
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You
Security
" We are in an era of chronic insecurity and growing inequalities. In that context, we need to have new mechanisms for income distribution which give people a sense of security. "
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Growing
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" A primary justification for a basic income is social justice. "
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" The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing. "
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" Politicians should reflect on the well-documented fact that fearful, insecure people lose their sense of tolerance and altruism. "
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" The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights - cultural, civil, social, economic, and political. "
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" Since all political parties blame the others for the economic mess, it is unfair to attribute unemployment to individual behaviour. "
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" 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. "
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" Growth in village economies is often ignored. It should not be. "
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" Magna Carta only came into being in 1217, when the wording had been changed and parts of the original were extended in the Charter of the Forests. This complementary charter covered liberties granted to the common man, including rights to the commons, grazing, fishing, water, and firewood, and was perhaps the first ecological charter in history. "
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Fishing
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