Effect Quote by Guy Standing Download Open image “The primary value of a basic income would be its emancipatory effect.” — Guy Standing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Effect Income Primary Value Would
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
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
I think one of the most important facts of basic income would be that it's not only a redistribution of income, but also of… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
A universal basic income means not only that millions of people would receive unconditional cash payments, but also that millions of people would have… — 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
“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
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
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
I don't see basic income as a panacea, but we must have a new income distribution system. The old one has broken down irretrievably. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“As of early 2017, GiveDirectly planned to mobilize $30 million for what it claims will be the largest basic income experiment ever. Continuing with… — 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
“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
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
What puzzles me is the way that some of the smaller, unknown chateaux imagine that because Chinese millionaires pay ludicrous sums for the great… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
“And slowly a discussion begins - as Morrie has wanted all along - about the effect of silence on human relations. Why are we… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the… — K'naan Copy Share Image
The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored… — Lewis Tappan Copy Share Image
All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the… — Susan Eisenhower Copy Share Image
