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originally posted by: burdman30ott6
I exist, pay me. God, how mankind survived this long with this genetic predisposition for laziness and theft is anyone's guess.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average worker currently holds ten different jobs before age forty, and this number is projected to grow. Forrester Research predicts that today's youngest workers ? that's you ? will hold twelve to fifteen jobs in their lifetime
Basic income is a regular and unconditional distribution of money by the state to every member of society, whether they engage in paid work or not. Basic income is always tax-free and it replaces social welfare payments, child benefit and the state pension as we currently know them. It also extends to all those who currently receive no income from the state. Ideally, a basic income would be sufficient for each person to have a frugal but decent lifestyle without supplementary income from paid work.
Basic income would bring into the security net all those not served by the current system: casual and short-contract workers who get no or limited sick pay, holiday pay or pension rights; self-employed people and business owners; those doing valuable unpaid work, including care, which adds value to society and economy. Basic income would increase everybody’s capacity to cope with financial shocks and uncertainties and would improve general quality of life, while supporting many different kinds of work, with or without pay.
Currently, those receiving welfare are badly served by the system: if they take paid work, especially low-paid or temporary, they often lose out financially, in a ‘benefits trap’. With basic income, there would always be a financial incentive for people to earn a taxable income, should a job be available. Employers would also welcome the ending of the benefits trap.
originally posted by: interupt42
This will be interesting to observe. It sounds like there intention is to tackle unemployment by giving the basic assistance of 800 euros to people in order to encourage those unemployed to take low paying jobs, but yet be able to live of those wages.
The Finnish government is currently drawing up plans to introduce a national basic income. A final proposal won’t be presented until November 2016, but if all goes to schedule, Finland will scrap all existing benefits and instead hand out 800 euros per month—to everyone.
qz.com...
Its not all kumbaya
Another serious consideration is that some people may be worse off under the plan. As the proposal hasn’t been published yet, it’s not yet known exactly who will lose out. But those who currently receive housing support or disability benefits could conceivably end up with less under national basic income, since the plan calls for scrapping existing benefits.
Finland constitution requires that everyone gets treated equal, therefore millionaire and up will also get the same benefit.
Finally, the proposal raises the question of whether it’s really fair to give a millionaire the same amount of welfare as someone who’s truly struggling. Finland’s constitution insists that all citizens must be equal
I'm sceptical but will surely hope for there success ,but some how I just see the cost of everything going up to eventually nullify the 800 income fairly quick.
Here is o hoping to prove my scepticism wrong .
originally posted by: starwarsisreal
a reply to: interupt42
They did this in the US with the poor people and they became so dependent on it that they virtually became slaves.
That is the problem with moves like this, you aren't removing the root cause of corruption, mankind, because that root cause can't be removed.
originally posted by: interupt42
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: Ksihkehe
I'm all for education and training (I'm constantly trying to educate myself and add to my own professional skill set) but the best you could hope to do is change who is poor and not the number of poor — a number that is only going to increase under the current economic system and employment paradigm because of technological advancements that are increasingly eliminating the need for human labor.
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originally posted by: Eilasvaleleyn
a reply to: Xtrozero
The reason for this is that most people look at the gap between the wealthy and poor, look at the terrible state of the world, and lose hope. They know that the greatest benefits of their work will go to some rich asshole sitting atop an ivory tower who'll never even know their name.
Who wants to strive for a better tomorrow, when the better tomorrow won't be for the ones who created it?
originally posted by: onequestion
a reply to: interupt42
Good everyone doesn't NEED a job anymore
originally posted by: onequestion
a reply to: interupt42
Good everyone doesn't NEED a job anymore