Posted: May 26, 2019 6:16 pm
Keep It Real wrote:felltoearth wrote:
3. Post work society and Universal Basic Income. It’ll be a long time before we see any of this implemented as the powers that be love their wage slaves. UBI is a great ideal and I support it, but Capitalism needs a rework in its current form before anything moves towards that. I’m more pragmatic in that sense.
I hear on the grapevine that UK Labour are to include trialling some form of UBI in 3 major cities as a component of their election manifesto. Perhaps not suuuuuuch a distant dream then.
We started a pilot project here that was immediately cancelled by the next government. People don’t understand enough of what UBI means yet to make it sustainable. Other things will have to change before this is widely accepted and not precarious