Interdependence 6 - Professor Guy Standing
Added 2020-06-09 22:42:16 +0000 UTCIn this latest episode we talk with Professor Guy Standing, who has been at the forefront of Basic Income research for 30 years, running pilots all over the world.
We discuss his original concept of “The Precariat”, a new class that might be familiar to many listeners, the moral case for a basic income and its fans in US politics and Silicon Valley, and his vision of a future of a new left built upon enlightenment principles.
Links!
Guy Standing: https://www.guystanding.com/
Basic Income Earth Network: https://basicincome.org/
The Precariat: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-precariat-9781849664561/
Plunder of the Commons: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/308/308407/plunder-of-the-commons/9780141990620.html
Comments
Nice to hear :) That is a great question! I think personally (Mat) I would not have done things too differently, however I would have been more comfortable and perhaps less stressed. In my early 20s it would have been game changing. I would have started a company with good friends rather than us each having to take jobs we did not want for security reasons. Who knows where that may have lead.
Mat
2020-08-01 10:23:16 +0000 UTCI listened to this ep. once again on vacation, while driving across Germany with my partner. We discussed the implications that implementing BI may have on society, and actually imagined that, in the longer term, it might radically redefine the meaning of success, failure, and accomplishment in one's working life. My partner then came up with a question, which I think is worth sharing: what would you have done differently in the past five years if you had access to basic income?
2020-07-29 21:29:45 +0000 UTCinteresting - I guess in this context this is also why scrutinizing the fine print on any Basic Income proposals is so crucial
Mat
2020-06-28 17:02:06 +0000 UTCI'm all for championing economic security as a natural right but history shows that even inalienable rights can be disrupted by bad actors. Copyright has a similar story in the late 17th century when discourse circled around an individual's rights in the fruits of their intellectual labor becoming inalienable, and the capitalist class disagreed saying one's IP rights must be tradable and assignable - in this case - to the publishing monopoly, in perpetuity. One way natural rights can be upheld is by incorporating them into a constitution and you can be sure England knows this, that's why there isn't a written constitution.
Henry Prince
2020-06-27 09:35:42 +0000 UTC
