[Wikimedia-l] Basic income & Wikimedians

[Emmanuel Engelhart]

Le 09/01/2014 20:50, Balázs Viczián a écrit :
> I like such proposals (sarcasm).
> 
> where do you get the money from, what you wish to distribute?
> 
> In general free money -> less people will work (why to work if I still get
> money? - see the masses living on unemployment benefits - libre time :) )
> -> less people working -> higher taxes -> people will be :( on both ends.
> Higher minimum! Lower taxes! Down with the government! Yay.
> 
> Printing money would lead to inflation - more money worth less.
> 
> And these are the basic, most visible IRL effects.
> 
> Pls forget these economical nonsenses.

For people urgently needing to read more about the basic income:
http://www.basicincome.org/bien/aboutbasicincome.html
* 5 years long experiment in Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
* Experiment in Namibia: http://www.bignam.org/

Emmanuel
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