Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts. — Guy Standing Economics Copy Share Image
If you're healthier, you tend to have a lower demand for health services. — Guy Standing Demand Copy Share Image
Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare. — Guy Standing Insecurity Copy Share Image
Workfare will merely accentuate the growth of the low-paying, insecure labour market. — Guy Standing Growth Copy Share Image
People, in general, want to improve their lives and the lives of their children and other loved ones. — Guy Standing Children 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 Become 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 Cannot 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
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
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
We are in an era of chronic insecurity and growing inequalities. In that context, we need to have new mechanisms for income… — Guy Standing Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity. — Guy Standing Best Copy Share Image
The World Bank and others have been converted to conditional cash transfers (CCT). These provide poor people with cash on condition they… — Guy Standing Bank 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
Millions of people in many so-called democratic countries have lost the right to vote, or never obtain it. And millions clearly feel… — Guy Standing Democracy 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 Accept 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
A person looking after a frail former lover is not working and not contributing to economic growth. But if he or she… — Guy Standing Economic growth 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
“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
“Reformers must be able to pre-empt the expected jibes over lack of ‘reciprocity’, affordability, inducement to laziness, ‘something for nothing’ and cash… — Guy Standing Enjoying life Copy Share Image
“Recent research has shown that lack of basic security impairs mental as well as physical health, triggers various psychological disorders and reduces… — Guy Standing Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“The spread of charity has largely reflected the manifold failings of means-tested social assistance, the unfairness of conditionality, the deliberate sanctions taken… — Guy Standing Failure Copy Share Image
“One reason given for supporting guaranteed jobs is that surveys suggest unemployed people are less happy than people with jobs. This is… — Guy Standing Happy Employed 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 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
“It was Ephialtes, in fact, who initiated democratic reforms that involved paying citizens for jury service. Shortly afterwards, he was assassinated (allegedly… — Guy Standing Ancient greek Copy Share Image
“It is a sad irony that many countries possessing natural resources with high income potential have floundered into civil strife as factions… — Guy Standing Leadership Copy Share Image
“In Lebanon, home to well over a million Syrian refugees, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) decided to use its limited ‘winterization’ funds… — Guy Standing Food security Copy Share Image
Nobody should be allowed to fund political parties unless they pay at least 30% tax on all income above the median wage.… — Guy Standing Pay Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a commons is that it is not private property, does not have a price, and is oriented towards 'use value'… — Guy Standing Commons Copy Share Image
