This is a conversation with Guy Standing, a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London and a founding member and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), a non-governmental organisation that promotes a basic income for all.
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Topics Discussed:
What is Universal Basic Income (UBI)/ Basic Income
Why it’s so important that basic income be unconditional
Towards a new class system: Precariat, Salariat, Proficients, Oligarchs, Plutocracy, Working Class, Lumpen Underclass etc
What is the precariatized mind?
Types of Precariats: Atavists who look to the past/Nostalgics: The migrants, the roamers, the refugees, the minorities/Progressives
Towards a new politics of time
How the global COVID-19 pandemic makes the case for a basic income
Recommended Books
The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi
The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All by Peter Linebaugh
Music by Tarabeat.
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