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Sheep magazine Archive 2: issues 10-17

Lefty online magazine: issue 10, May 2016 to issue 17, November 2016

Lefty online magazine: issue 10, May 2016 to issue 17, November 2016

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A Basic Income will strengthen our Democracy as with a minimum level of<br />

security guaranteed to all citizens and less time in work or worrying about<br />

work, innovation in political, social, economic and technological terms would<br />

be a more lively part of everyday life and its concerns.<br />

A Basic Income is a fair redistribution of technological advancement and,<br />

thanks to massive advancements in our technological and productive<br />

capacities, the world of work is changing. Yet most of our wealth and<br />

technology is as a consequence of our ‘standing on the shoulders of<br />

giants’: We are wealthier not as a result of our own efforts and merits but<br />

those of our ancestors. Basic income is a way to civilize and redistribute the<br />

advantages of that on-going advancement.<br />

A Basic Income will end extreme financial poverty. Because we now live in a<br />

world where we have the means (and one hopes, the will) to end the kinds<br />

of suffering we see as a supposedly constant feature of our surroundings, a<br />

Basic income is a way to join together the means and the will.<br />

37<br />

Interfered with, and Edited from Basic Income UK<br />

And from Courtenay Inchbald (whoever he is?): ‘The basic income will be<br />

at the expense of the tax-payer, i.e. rich people, and it will be very costly, so<br />

it is important to ensure that the culture created by a basic income policy is<br />

positive to the rich as well as the poor and makes the rich willing to pay more<br />

tax rather than to leave. [‘fuck them!’ Ed.] Basic income is the simple element<br />

that allows the best parts of socialism and capitalism to be combined. It allows<br />

government to concentrate on making its territory a place where everyone, rich<br />

and poor, wants to live and where poor citizens can afford to live.’<br />

NOVEMBER 2016

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