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Keep it quiet, but universal basic income is coming
Friday, March 27th, 2020
The rise of fascism and the Second World War required the creation of the full welfare state (which was previously restricted to meagre old age pensions) to avoid a replay the next time the economy tanked. The current emergency may be fostering the rise of ideas previously seen as too radical to contemplate, but nobody is saying “universal basic income” yet.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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