Posted: Dec 28, 2016 11:07 am
Beatsong wrote:Galactor - is there any information available from those local areas in the Netherlands that have tried it, describing successes and/or failures?
I've been looking into this but haven't found anything concrete yet.
Beatsong wrote:The Greens talked about it in our last general election campaign in the UK, but couldn't make the numbers add up. They were talking about a basic income of £72 a week, and the problem is nobody can actually live on that amount of money in the UK, so it's not like it would actually solve anything.
There's something wrong with either the UK or the NL if there is such a discrepancy between what we (in the NL) could pay (and are wasting on civil servants) which is around £1280 p.m. Even merely disbanding the social security systems here would allow a £640 per (adult) person p.m. wage. It's almost as if the UK doesn't do automation.