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Canada needs to step up and provide Canadians with sustainable income security
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/canada-needs-to-step-up-and-provide-canadians-with-sustainable-income-security/
By Sean Casey
@HalifaxExaminer I really wish that the media wouldn't fall for what seems to be right wing idealogical push to stop people talking about #UBI and instead shift to talking about #GuaranteedIncome.
One of them changes #society and (ironically) provides the ultimate free market capitalism when it comes to employment, which the billionaire oligarchs dread. The other is just yet another crutch to try and temporarily fix society whilst not actually changing anything except for the #poverty level.
Even the Basic Income Canada Network has shifted to talking about Guaranteed Income. I hope that's at least Guaranteed *Livable* Income, but it's definitely a step backwards from Universal Basic Income. They've shifted because they think it will be easier to get politicians to accept GLI rather than UBI.
I think BICN is making a mistake.
#BasicIncomeCanadaNetwork #BICN
#GuaranteedLivableIncome #GLI
#UniversalBasicIncome #UBI
1/2 They have. And my 500 character limit is annoying here.
UBI at the right level gives workers a choice where they want to work and what wages they will accept, and extends that to people being able to pick zero wage income and just volunteering or running small business that don't need to make a profit. In a strong sense, it creates the ultimate free market capitalism.
#BasicIncomeCanadaNetwork #BICN
#GuaranteedLivableIncome #GLI
#UniversalBasicIncome #UBI
2/2 Despite what FOX news hosts wail all the time, humans by nature are not lazy so they won't stop working. But UBI would fundamentally change society.
Although Guaranteed Income will help keep people out of poverty, it's a stopgap under firm government control and doesn't change the nature of work at all.
It will be interesting to see who starts talking GI instead of UBI.
#BasicIncomeCanadaNetwork #BICN
#GuaranteedLivableIncome #GLI
#UniversalBasicIncome #UBI
I should add that I haven't read the Halifax Examiner's article - As I seem to have become a professional whistleblower, with no chance of being re-employed and zero income for 3 years I can't afford subscriptions over food and meds. I am kind of invested in the future of this #UBI lark :)
What I am working on is an advocacy network for front-line safety workers, you know the people who look at child abuse and murders all day - #UBI would also be a big help there!
Here's my takeaway from the article:
>...spent two years developing a report which modelled an income-tested Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI)...
>...recommends a five to seven year federal/provincial demonstration project...
Another report. Another demonstration project. No action.
To be fair, the article authors seem as frustrated with the situation as I am.
#GuaranteedBasicIncome #GBI #BasicIncome #UniversalBasicIncome #UBI