Citizenship Archive - Freiheit statt Vollbeschäftigung

So far, so true – but what does it mean? Could be a plea for Universal Basic Income!

Coronavirus could mark the end of the second postwar transition. Around what idea might politics, society and the economy now revolve? The answer should be citizenship, Martin Wolf argues in the first entry in a new FT Series: the New Social Contract https://t.co/dwzo15QIEy

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) July 6, 2020

Wenn etwas Selbstverständliches herausgehoben wird, dann scheint es nicht mehr selbstverständlich zu sein. Was aber folgt aus der Antwort, die Martin Wolf nahelegt? „The New Social Contract“ – das muss einer sein, der ein Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen beinhaltet.

Sascha Liebermann

„It should be a basic right of citizenship“…

https://t.co/yQd8FkY5Lt @AndrewYang:
„It should be a basic right of citizenship to have a certain level of resources to be able to meet your basic needs.“#UBI #BasicIncome #EmergencyUBI #BGE #coronavirus

— BGE Eisenach (@bge_esa) March 24, 2020

„Why is UBI such a tedious topic?“

Die Frage wird von Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein am Ende in ein einfaches, aber selten vorgebrachtes Argument aufgelöst:

„Pay is, essentially, a political token that we trade in order to control our lives. And if pay isn’t to reward increased productivity, if productivity has been resolved as a problem, pay ought to be linked to our value as citizens in a democracy, meaning distributed equally. This is a good argument for a UBI.“

That’s it: from the spirit of democracy – aus dem Geist der Demokratie eben.

Sascha Liebermann