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...a UBI is not a salve for a world of technological unemployment, or a powerful antipoverty measure, or a form of social dividend, or a way to boost the earnings of the working poor. Rather, it is all those things and more: a paradigmatic shift that would free people from having to do more work that they did not want to do at all. A UBI would, in essence, lop off the bottom of the psychologist Abraham Maslow's 'hierarchy of needs', where air, food, water, and shelter reside, with self-transcend
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― Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
― Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
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The solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
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