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# Guy Standing

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##  Quotes by Guy Standing · Page 3

> [Many in the precariat know they have to spend considerable time just waiting for opportunities to arise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/many-in-the-precariat-know-they-have-to-spend-considerable-time-just/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/most-existing-national-capital-funds-have-been-built-up-from/)

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> [Nobody should be allowed to fund political parties unless they pay at least 30% tax on all income above the median wage.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/nobody-should-be-allowed-to-fund-political-parties-unless-they-pay-at/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/public-social-services-infrastructural-policies-and-so-on-are-vital/)

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> [I don't see basic income as a panacea, but we must have a new income distribution system. The old one has broken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/i-don-t-see-basic-income-as-a-panacea-but-we-must-have-a-new-income/)

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> [Globalisation, technological change, and the move to flexible labour markets has channelled more and more income to rentiers - those owning financial,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/globalisation-technological-change-and-the-move-to-flexible-labour/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/the-precariat-can-be-divided-into-three-further-groups-atavists-who/)

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> [People in the precariat find themselves in the situation where the level of their education and qualifications is almost always higher than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/people-in-the-precariat-find-themselves-in-the-situation-where-the/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/politicians-seem-desperate-to-appeal-to-their-respective-versions-of/)

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> [Successive governments in the U.K. have worked to create a more flexible labour market, which also meant labour insecurity. They allowed wages…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/successive-governments-in-the-u-k-have-worked-to-create-a-more/)

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> [Every time a government minister or spokesman lauds Magna Carta, let us boo or hiss. Shame them. And let us celebrate what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/every-time-a-government-minister-or-spokesman-lauds-magna-carta-let/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/the-ip-system-is-an-artificial-construct-that-excessively-rewards/)

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> [“What is the ethical or philosophical justification for a basic income? A fundamental claim is that it is an instrument of social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/what-is-the-ethical-or-philosophical-justification-for-a-basic-income/)

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> [The precariat consists of a growing proportion of our total society. It is being habituated to accept a life of unstable labour…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/the-precariat-consists-of-a-growing-proportion-of-our-total-society/)

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> [“Security is a precious asset. It should be a goal of everyone who genuinely wants to build a good society rather than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/security-is-a-precious-asset-it-should-be-a-goal-of-everyone-who/)

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> [Millions of people in many so-called democratic countries have lost the right to vote, or never obtain it. And millions clearly feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/millions-of-people-in-many-so-called-democratic-countries-have-lost/)

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> [Using political power, the elite can induce local authorities to facilitate enclosure and privatisation of land, water, and other hitherto public amenities.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/using-political-power-the-elite-can-induce-local-authorities-to/)

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> [“Politicians must find a way – or several ways for different groups – of framing basic income so as to outflank critics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/politicians-must-find-a-way-or-several-ways-for-different-groups-of/)

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> [“The financing option favoured by this writer would be to fund a basic income from the construction of sovereign wealth funds, along…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/the-financing-option-favoured-by-this-writer-would-be-to-fund-a-basic/)

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> [“While there are reasons to be sceptical about the predicted technological dystopia that has prompted many high-tech plutocrats to come out in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/while-there-are-reasons-to-be-sceptical-about-the-predicted/)

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> [“It was nevertheless Thomas More who first depicted what a society with a basic income might look like. In a novel justification…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/it-was-nevertheless-thomas-more-who-first-depicted-what-a-society/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/in-india-about-half-of-all-poor-households-do-not-have-a-bpl-below/)

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> [“Contrary to the preaching of dour labourists, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with a bit of laziness. Great philosophers through the ages…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/contrary-to-the-preaching-of-dour-labourists-there-is-nothing/)

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> [“To be free in the republican sense, people must have adequate resources enabling them to make reasonable choices, whatever the preferences and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/to-be-free-in-the-republican-sense-people-must-have-adequate/)

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> [What we need is a slow time movement to gain control over time and an overhaul of work statistics to give a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/what-we-need-is-a-slow-time-movement-to-gain-control-over-time-and-an/)

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> [Since all political parties blame the others for the economic mess, it is unfair to attribute unemployment to individual behaviour.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/since-all-political-parties-blame-the-others-for-the-economic-mess-it/)

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> [The claim that if people had a basic income they would become lazy is prejudiced and has been refuted many times in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/the-claim-that-if-people-had-a-basic-income-they-would-become-lazy-is/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/many-low-income-people-in-the-u-s-a-charged-with-a-crime-opt-to-plead/)

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> [Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/collective-action-remains-the-best-way-of-renewing-the-march-towards/)

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> [Twentieth-century welfare state capitalism was historically unique in that national income was split between wages and profits, labour and capital.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/twentieth-century-welfare-state-capitalism-was-historically-unique-in/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/the-precariatised-mind-is-one-without-anchors-flitting-from-subject/)

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> [We are in an era of chronic insecurity and growing inequalities. In that context, we need to have new mechanisms for income…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/we-are-in-an-era-of-chronic-insecurity-and-growing-inequalities-in/)

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> [Chronically insecure people easily lose their altruism, tolerance, and respect for non-conformity. If they have no alternative on offer, they can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/chronically-insecure-people-easily-lose-their-altruism-tolerance-and/)

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> [The precariat has been losing cultural rights in that those in it feel they cannot and do not belong to any community…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/the-precariat-has-been-losing-cultural-rights-in-that-those-in-it/)

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> [What we can say with confidence is that the technological revolution is worsening inequality, due mostly to mechanisms that limit free markets.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/what-we-can-say-with-confidence-is-that-the-technological-revolution/)

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> [The precariat is today's mass class, which is both dangerous, in rejecting old political party agendas, and transformative, in wanting to become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/the-precariat-is-today-s-mass-class-which-is-both-dangerous-in/)

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> [“In an innovative proposal linked to basic income that has attracted interest across the European Union, Philippe van Parijs has suggested that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/in-an-innovative-proposal-linked-to-basic-income-that-has-attracted/)

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[European union](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/european-union/)

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## Guy Standing by topic

[Basic Income (32)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/basic-income/guy-standing/) [Inequality (14)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/inequality/guy-standing/) [Politics (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/guy-standing/) [People (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/guy-standing/)

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                        "text": "“It was nevertheless Thomas More who first depicted what a society with a basic income might look like. In a novel justification that is not without modern parallels,4 he saw basic income as a better way to reduce thievery than hanging, then the usual punishment. One of his characters says: No penalty on earth will stop people from stealing if it is their only way of getting food … Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody is under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse. Ten years later, a Spanish-Flemish scholar and friend of More, Johannes Vives, submitted a detailed proposal to the Mayor of Bruges for ensuring a minimum subsistence for all the city’s residents; this led to a brief trial of the idea in the town of Ypres. For this reason, some credit Vives with being the first to initiate something like a basic income. But in his model the assistance (food) was targeted on the poor only. Vives was also a proponent of ‘workfare’, making the poor labour in return. Still, More, Vives and others helped to legitimize the idea of publicly funded and publicly provided poor relief, rather than reliance on discretionary charity by the Church or the rich.”",
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                        "text": "“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 the rules) have one.5 A study in the Indian state of Karnataka found that more than two-thirds of those questioned who were ineligible for BPL cards (for example, owning a water pump) in fact had them, while a sixth of those eligible for the cards did not.6 Research in Gujarat, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh showed that a large proportion of those in dire need did not have BPL cards or were denied them for some spurious reason.7 Often the poorest were least likely to have them. Targeting also creates poverty traps, with accompanying moral and immoral hazards. If a household obtains a benefit only if it is classified as poor, then it pays to stay poor. Increasing income to just above the poverty level means losing more than the extra earnings. So, there is a disincentive to earn extra. This moral hazard prompts the immoral hazard. Someone gaining a little more income will have an incentive to conceal it, so as not to lose entitlement to the benefit.”",
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                        "text": "“Contrary to the preaching of dour labourists, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with a bit of laziness. Great philosophers through the ages have argued in its favour. Aristotle explicitly recognized the necessity of aergia, laziness, for contemplative thought. Bertrand Russell wrote a celebrated essay, In Praise of Idleness. Paul Lafargue, Karl Marx’s son-in-law, authored a subversive book entitled The Right to be Lazy that communists detested because it made the case against forcing everybody to labour more intensively. Today, however, the words ‘idleness’ and ‘lazy’ are used pejoratively to convey indolence, time wasting and drift. What is wrong with idleness? In modern society, more than ever, we need to slow down and recall the wisdom of Cato when he said, ‘Never is a man more active than when he does nothing.’ We are in danger of losing the capacity to reflect, to deliberate, to ponder, even to communicate and to learn in the true sense of that term.”",
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                        "text": "“To be free in the republican sense, people must have adequate resources enabling them to make reasonable choices, whatever the preferences and opinions of others. And full freedom requires that others are aware of this freedom and thus cannot look down on someone in pity or contempt. Freedom must mean neutrality towards individual decision making, not a carefully constructed, devious, non-transparent edifice of devices to induce norm-driven behaviour, however benevolent the intention. This clearly justifies a basic income, and combats the pernicious notion of the beggar, a ‘stigmatized petitioner’. Part of the republican tradition, associated with Hannah Arendt as well as Aristotle, also embraces the idea of ‘associational freedom’ – the ability and opportunity to act in concert as a group. Associational freedom has been under relentless attack by the neo-liberal state, for the simple reason that ‘associations’ can be portrayed as opposed to market forces and as distorting them. A republic is conceivable only if everybody is in the company of equally self-confident people free of existential fear. This”",
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