Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts. — Guy Standing Economics Copy Share Image
The income distribution system constructed in the 20th century has broken down, and it will not come back. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Sanctions and workfare make it easier for employers to impose insecure practices on desperate people. — Guy Standing Desperate Copy Share Image
Many in the precariat know they have to spend considerable time just waiting for opportunities to arise. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
The Magna Carta was the first class-based charter, enforced on the monarchy by the rising class. — Guy Standing Class Copy Share Image
Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
If you're healthier, you tend to have a lower demand for health services. — Guy Standing Demand Copy Share Image
People want to work, but they don't want to necessarily want to do labour. — Guy Standing Labour Copy Share Image
What we need is a slow time movement to gain control over time and an overhaul of work statistics to give a… — Guy Standing Control Copy Share Image
Since all political parties blame the others for the economic mess, it is unfair to attribute unemployment to individual behaviour. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
The claim that if people had a basic income they would become lazy is prejudiced and has been refuted many times in… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Many low-income people in the U.S.A. charged with a crime opt to plead guilty to a lesser offence because they cannot afford… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Chronically insecure people easily lose their altruism, tolerance, and respect for non-conformity. If they have no alternative on offer, they can be… — Guy Standing Altruism Copy Share Image
The precariat has been losing cultural rights in that those in it feel they cannot and do not belong to any community… — Guy Standing Community Copy Share Image
Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century welfare state capitalism was historically unique in that national income was split between wages and profits, labour and capital. — Guy Standing Capitalism Copy Share Image
The precariat is today's mass class, which is both dangerous, in rejecting old political party agendas, and transformative, in wanting to become… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Using political power, the elite can induce local authorities to facilitate enclosure and privatisation of land, water, and other hitherto public amenities.… — Guy Standing Elite Copy Share Image
What we can say with confidence is that the technological revolution is worsening inequality, due mostly to mechanisms that limit free markets.… — Guy Standing Change Copy Share Image
“In an innovative proposal linked to basic income that has attracted interest across the European Union, Philippe van Parijs has suggested that… — Guy Standing European union Copy Share Image
The IP system is an artificial construct that excessively rewards owners of intellectual property, granting them monopolies over inventions and ideas that,… — Guy Standing Ideas Copy Share Image
“What is the ethical or philosophical justification for a basic income? A fundamental claim is that it is an instrument of social… — Guy Standing Character Copy Share Image
The precariat consists of a growing proportion of our total society. It is being habituated to accept a life of unstable labour… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“Security is a precious asset. It should be a goal of everyone who genuinely wants to build a good society rather than… — Guy Standing Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“Politicians must find a way – or several ways for different groups – of framing basic income so as to outflank critics… — Guy Standing Money Copy Share Image
“The financing option favoured by this writer would be to fund a basic income from the construction of sovereign wealth funds, along… — Guy Standing Money Copy Share Image
“While there are reasons to be sceptical about the predicted technological dystopia that has prompted many high-tech plutocrats to come out in… — Guy Standing Industrial revolution Copy Share Image
“Cash transfer schemes that at present are overwhelmingly targeted at ‘the poor’ have the potential to prepare the way for basic income.2… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), which compared ‘food versus cash’ in four countries, found that in three of the four –… — Guy Standing Civil war Copy Share Image
“Leaving aside instrumental reasons for supporting a basic income, the thrill lies in the potential to advance full freedom and social justice,… — Guy Standing Adventure Copy Share Image
“Ironically, opponents of basic income on the grounds that it would lead to a dismantling of the welfare state tend to support… — Guy Standing Leadership Copy Share Image
“In October 2016, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said: The use of cash-based assistance has been a real game changer in… — Guy Standing Immigration Copy Share Image
“It was nevertheless Thomas More who first depicted what a society with a basic income might look like. In a novel justification… — Guy Standing Better way Copy Share Image
“To be free in the republican sense, people must have adequate resources enabling them to make reasonable choices, whatever the preferences and… — Guy Standing Decision making Copy Share Image
“In India, about half of all poor households do not have a BPL (below-poverty-line) card and about one-third of the non-poor (under… — Guy Standing Family Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the preaching of dour labourists, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with a bit of laziness. Great philosophers through the ages… — Guy Standing Laziness Copy Share Image
“In a 2016 book widely publicized in the US, Stern claimed that 58 per cent of all jobs would be automated eventually,… — Guy Standing Books Copy Share Image
“The first basic income pilot in a developing country was implemented in the small Namibian village of Otjivero-Omitara in 2008–9, covering about… — Guy Standing Collective action Copy Share Image
“PROFESSOR’S TEASER Here is an interesting teaser from Harvard economics professor Greg Mankiw, in a blog post entitled ‘A quick note on… — Guy Standing Flat tax Copy Share Image
“The social justice principles outlined in previous chapters provide a useful checklist for evaluating any policy. To recall, these are: The Security… — Guy Standing Justice Copy Share Image
