Many in the precariat know they have to spend considerable time just waiting for opportunities to arise. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Most existing national capital funds have been built up from royalties from oil and other minerals. They need not be limited that… — Guy Standing 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 Copy Share Image
Public social services, infrastructural policies, and so on are vital. But a basic income should be part of a package of reforms. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
I don't see basic income as a panacea, but we must have a new income distribution system. The old one has broken… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Globalisation, technological change, and the move to flexible labour markets has channelled more and more income to rentiers - those owning financial,… — Guy Standing Change Copy Share Image
The precariat can be divided into three further groups - atavists, who look back to a lost past; nostalgics, who look forlornly… — Guy Standing Future Copy Share Image
People in the precariat find themselves in the situation where the level of their education and qualifications is almost always higher than… — Guy Standing Education Copy Share Image
Politicians seem desperate to appeal to their respective versions of the so called 'middle class,' unable to empathise with the precariat and… — Guy Standing Middle class Copy Share Image
Successive governments in the U.K. have worked to create a more flexible labour market, which also meant labour insecurity. They allowed wages… — Guy Standing Inequality Copy Share Image
Every time a government minister or spokesman lauds Magna Carta, let us boo or hiss. Shame them. And let us celebrate what… — Guy Standing 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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 precariatised mind is one without anchors, flitting from subject to subject, in the extreme suffering from attention deficit disorder. But it… — Guy Standing Attention 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
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
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
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
“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
