Comments on: MR Exclusive – Meet the Precariat http://mediaroots.org/mr-exclusive-meet-the-precariat/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:55:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: Bernard Marszalek http://mediaroots.org/mr-exclusive-meet-the-precariat/comment-page-1/#comment-212 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:27:03 +0000 http://localhost/mediaroots/mr-exclusive-meet-the-precariat/#comment-212 Basic Income will also not make us brush our teeth, BUT even if we accept all the inadequacies outlined, and I don’t, they don’t outweigh the major positive value of BI which is to address economic insecurity. I would suggest reading about this one four year experiment with the plan in a Canadian town:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome

]]> By: JR http://mediaroots.org/mr-exclusive-meet-the-precariat/comment-page-1/#comment-213 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:23:18 +0000 http://localhost/mediaroots/mr-exclusive-meet-the-precariat/#comment-213 Universal basic income fails to address:

1) Structural and cyclical unemployment
2) Desire to work and avoid the stigma of not doing something
3) Inevitable downward pressure on wages as a result of implementation
4) Privatization of the social wage (welfare being substituted, as your own article stated)
5) Class origins of political advocacy and beneficiaries (working-class vs. lumpen)

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