Unconditional Basic Income Guarantee

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Implementing Article 25: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Posted on 01, November 2011 November 01 2011 2011年11月1日 by basicincome

What is Basic Income?

One of the best places to get started answering this question is the Reddit #BasicIncome FAQ (share: http://j.mp/BIGredditFAQ)

The fundamental principle of any viable UBI/BIG/GLI is to enact Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (share: http://j.mp/Article25UDHR)

Some things that #BasicIncome is NOT:

  • A panacea that solves all of society’s ills, untreated mental illness, addiction, domestic violence, emotional abuse, etc.
  • A perma-poverty payment that locks people into the current status quo; e.g., a sub-subsistence transfer that barely qualifies as poverty by the old 1960’s index standards.
  • An arbitrarily handy round number e.g. $10K/yr or $1K/mo., completely untethered from the real economy.
  • An “equal money” scheme. No serious scholar or policy maker gives the slightest thought to the proposition of – in the widely recognized lyrics of Rush2112 – “the trees were all made equal by hatchet, axe, and saw.”

An earlier version of this post included a comprehensive web bibliography:

23.DEC.2012 NOTE - Sorry! Tumblr Android App destroyed this entry, killed all links and formatting, you’ll have to dig for yourself until I can rebuild all the links. I know. Right? Pretty disappointing to have several years of collated curation obliterated by a single use of a mobile app. I’ll rebuild little by little.

Get Started:

#BasicIncome is the #AbundanceAlgorithm that works:

  • It’s how we implement (video) the Star Trek economy to catch up with all our Star Trek technology
  • It’s the sustainable circulatory system of the P2P Commons.
  • Learn from a Global Chorus of Consensus of humanity’s best and brightest minds
  • Catalysts 4 Change: Paths Out of Poverty: (2012: #basicincome Top 5 out of 18,000 micro-forecasts)
  • Basic Income Platform wins 15 Seats in Berlin State Parliament (2011: Pirate Party)
  • BIGNAM Findings (2009: Nationwide pilot success)
  • Canadian Mincome (1974-1979: Town without poverty)

Why Unconditional Universal #BasicIncome Now?

  • America’s current 50% Civilian Labor Non-Participation Rate
  • Labor Force Participation: The act of actively working or actively seeking work (Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality.com)
  • #BasicIncome is a 10 , 50, 200+ y.o. core American goal whose time has come
  • Philippe Van Parijs, Boston Review: 10 Years Ago
  • MLK: 50 Years Ago
  • John Stuart Mill: 200 Years Ago
  • An #AbudanceAlgorithm that extends our systems of success: Capitalism++
  • An adaptive approach to accelerating change: Apprehending Postscarcity
  • Put High Frequency Trading bots to work for All Humanity #OWS for #BasicIncome
  • #OWS and #BasicIncome (2011-2012: Please tweet updates to @basicincome also see DDG results.)
  • Hartford Occupy Platform Adopts #BasicIncome (2011: Article 3)

Activate the #AbundanceAlgorithm for all Humanity:   

  • Follow @BasicIncome on Twitter
  • Join Basic Income Google+ Group
  • Join Basic Income Facebook Community
  • ReShare this Tumblr & hit FOLLOW to keep up to date. Be a part of the human #AbundanceAlgorithm as 21st century economies discover and adopt Basic Income as the sustainable, scalable, post-industrial sufficiency circulation model.
  • Think you can make it viral? Let’s test those mad socialnetz skillz and fix unsustainable inequality in the U.S. and worldwide. Get to work on Reddit, Digg, Gawker, Pinterest, #Waywire you know the drill. #BeTheChange #SpeakTheTruth

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