Income Quote by Guy Standing Download Open image “A primary justification for a basic income is social justice.” — Guy Standing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Income Justice Social Social justice
“What is the ethical or philosophical justification for a basic income? A fundamental claim is that it is an instrument of social justice that… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Basic income would give people the most important freedom: the freedom of deciding for themselves what they want to do with their lives. — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
A guaranteed basic income has the potential for making civic organizations, families and neighborhoods much more vital, helpful and responsive than they have been… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
“Basic income is not part of mainstream policy discussions today, but it has a surprisingly long history and came remarkably close to reality in… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
If you had a basic income, it would mean that everybody would have a base on top of which their earned income would be… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry. — Clayton Cramer 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
“What Is Meant by ‘Basic’? The term ‘basic’ causes a lot of confusion. At the least, it means an amount that would enable someone… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
What the hell is social justice? What sort of fool can imagine income equality as dictated by bureaucrats and government thugs? I dare anyone… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
The primary value of a basic income would be its emancipatory effect. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
A universal basic income would be the best way to give everyone the opportunity to do more unpaid but incredibly important work, such as… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey. — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“The ethical and philosophical justifications for basic income – social justice, freedom and economic security – have been well established. They are embedded in… — Guy Standing 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. It is… — Guy Standing 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 support of… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“Selective paternalism, for those on low incomes or for other groups needing state assistance, is perhaps even worse than general paternalism, since the minority… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
A democratically governed national fracking fund should be set up, perhaps similar to what Norway and Alaska have. Areas of drilling should be rented… — 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 to go… — Guy Standing 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 some variant… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Globalisation began what should be called the Great Convergence, creating a globalising labour market in which wages in emerging market economies slowly converge with… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“Although reducing poverty, economic insecurity, malnutrition and ill-health should be the primary driving forces, an additional factor is the stress being placed on societies… — Guy Standing 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 1,000 people.40… — Guy Standing 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, and the… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and… — Richard G. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
We have a war on women, race wars. Income wars, age wars, religious wars, anything you can imagine. A house divided against itself cannot… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility,… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I was obliged… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You will learn more about Donald Trump by going down to the federal elections, where I filed a 104-page essentially financial statement of sorts,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
