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Corporations and financiers have used their growing influence to induce governments and international organizations to construct a global framework of institutions and regulations that enable elites to maximize their rental income.

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The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights - cultural, civil, social, economic, and political.

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The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing.

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Globalisation, technological change, and the move to flexible labour markets has channelled more and more income to rentiers - those owning financial, physical, or so-called intellectual property - while real wages stagnate.

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Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.

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Nobody should be allowed to fund political parties unless they pay at least 30% tax on all income above the median wage. If that rule applied, the Tory party would be bankrupted overnight.

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Every time a government minister or spokesman lauds Magna Carta, let us boo or hiss. Shame them. And let us celebrate what it really means to our history: the ability of an emerging class to make demands against the state for new liberties and rights.

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The World Bank and others have been converted to conditional cash transfers (CCT). These provide poor people with cash on condition they send their children to school and for medical treatment.

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The primary value of a basic income would be its emancipatory effect.

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Public social services, infrastructural policies, and so on are vital. But a basic income should be part of a package of reforms.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: September 1st, 1873

Died: February 24th, 1937

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