[Wikimedia-l] Basic income & Wikimedians

[Ilario Valdelli]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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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