Basic Income: The World's Simplest Plan to End Poverty, Explained
Happy Basic Income Day? May
1st may be better known as International Workers' Day, but some
activists are trying to rebrand it. "Labor Day should not be about
demanding ‘more jobs’ or higher wages," the official Basic Income Day website
explains. "Labor Day should be about struggling for the emancipation
from unnecessary labor, unchosen labor, exploited labor." And the way to
get that emancipation, it argues, is through a basic income.
But wait — what is a "basic income" anyway? Here are the basics (get it?) of the idea, in eleven questions.
