05-13-2016, 07:59 AM
Interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
Among other things, in the overview above guaranteed minimum income and basic income are differentiated. The citizen's wage I and others have proposed is a basic income proposal.
Also, the Wikipedia article points out another benefit of the citizen's wage: experiments conducted have shown many people with jobs can work about 5% less under this plan. Most are familiar with the working harder but falling further behind phenomenon of the last 30 years in the U.S. I believe it was Benton who pointed to middle class wages not keeping up as the big problem of this era. Instead of working more hours (and still treading water or sinking) this is a plan that allows you to work a little less, and I think that is a good thing.
Among other things, in the overview above guaranteed minimum income and basic income are differentiated. The citizen's wage I and others have proposed is a basic income proposal.
Also, the Wikipedia article points out another benefit of the citizen's wage: experiments conducted have shown many people with jobs can work about 5% less under this plan. Most are familiar with the working harder but falling further behind phenomenon of the last 30 years in the U.S. I believe it was Benton who pointed to middle class wages not keeping up as the big problem of this era. Instead of working more hours (and still treading water or sinking) this is a plan that allows you to work a little less, and I think that is a good thing.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
