I know this initiative and it is also requested by M5S in Italy.
The problem is connected with the funds to finance this initiative.
The base is that a minimum income (and not guaranteed minimum salary) is considered as a good way to assure also the reactivation of the internal market, but no one is giving sufficient support to the proposal saying how finance it.
In Switzerland recently has failed the referendum on the "guaranteed minimum salary" and the initiative "1:12", now there is the project of the "basic income" (valid for all citizens) but without a good picture of the financial basis to assure it, it may be an utopia (this is also what is happening in Italy).
Regards
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Seb35 seb35wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
If a basic income is implemented somewhere in the world, people will have more time for themselves in mean (probably more partial-time work), so they will have more time to edit the Wikimedia projects, among other possible activities. ~S
Le Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:55:39 +0100, Fæ faewik@gmail.com a écrit:
Thanks. I don't see how this relates to Wikimedia projects, by definition
it is not.
On 9 January 2014 12:40, Emmanuel Engelhart kelson@kiwix.org wrote:
Le 09/01/2014 13:36, Fæ a écrit :
The WMF has recently clarified that they "frown upon" paid editing. Presumably offering basic wage for people to edit Wikipedia is still
paid
editing?
The answer is "no", because the basic income is *unconditional*. This is an income, not at wage.
Definition from Wikipedia: "A basic income (also called basic income guarantee, unconditional basic income, universal basic income, universal demogrant,[1] or citizen’s income) is a proposed system[2] of social security in which citizens or residents of a country regularly receive a sum of money unconditionally, either from a government or some other institution able to ensure an equitable distribution of common wealth." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
Emmanuel
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