Sneak preview of a neoliberal UBI
Giving migrant workers access to insufficient welfare is a financial coercion tool of right wing and centrist economics.
universal basic income
The Future of Work Commission report
The Future of Work Commission report has now been released. It contains 63 recommendations including the tentative implementation of a universal basic income and a that voluntary work for approved organisations allow beneficiaries to continue to receive a benefit.
Maybe Karl Marx was right after all
Barack Obama recently talked about the possible need for a universal basic income because of the disappearance of work. Is a UBI so different to collective ownership of wealth?
Trickledown has failed
Two recent articles in the Guardian highlight the staggering amount of money being sent to overseas tax havens by the wealthy and how with the disappearance of work a universal basic income will become a necessity.
The sock puppets, the media and the UBI
Labour’s discussion of a possible UBI is still generating debate.
The media treatment of Labour’s UBI discussion paper
John Key and an array of National sock puppets have misrepresented Labour’s UBI proposal as party policy and as being very expensive when it is not party policy and when a variety of different potential forms have been raised for discussion.
Gareth Morgan’s Big Kahuna
Gareth Morgan and Susan Guthrie’s piece in the Herald brilliantly elucidates the crisis of capitalism and the inadequacy of an economic system that only recognises value in work that produces market goods and services. Their book, The Big Kahuna, on their alternative tax system has just been published and I found these videos of Morgan explaining.
Universal Income Revisited
The tax system we currently have is a relic of the pre-IT age. In the days of manual clerk-handled accounts, it was impractical […]