If a basic income is NOT guarnteed, then who will be refused the basic
amenities of life first? And who will decide who is most deserving of death?
FWP.
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Tor Forde wrote:
> The danger that a Guaranted Annual Income is posing is that it can be a
> way to put people away.
> I think everybody wants to make their part of the World their home, in
> some away. By putting their mark on it, by understanding it, by defining
> it, by creating a part of it. That is what people want!
> I am not against a Guaranteed Annual Income, but should it be without
> any conditions? I think that might be harmful to those who receives the
> Guaranteed Annual Income. People want in some way to be part of their
> World, either as the World is today or as they wish the World to be.
> A condition for getting a Guaranteed Annual Income could be to do
> something they want to do, and tell/show it to the community.
> Write a poem, learn something, build something, help somebody, take part
> in something. Just do not sit and wither away in front of a TV screen!
> Do not spend all week every week just drinking beer!
>
> This question has been discussed in Norway. And the reason given by f.ex
> the Labour Party to oppose a Guaranteed Annual Income is that it will
> bring up people who live in misery all their lives, many of them in
> lonelieness outside society.
>
> I am not going for workfare: that people should be forced to work for
> wages less than union wages.
>
> It is not an easy question. The Telephone company here in Norway has
> been laying off lots of people. Many of them have been keeping both an
> office and their pay for a long time, and their work have been to find
> something else to do. It has been a depressing situation to many.
> But others have been doing fine with an extra contribution, f.ex people
> with a very small farm, to small to make a living from, have been able
> to build it into something that they could live from while they were on
> a kind of social security.
> A Guaranteed Annual Income could be regarded as a kind of scholarship
> that lasted as long as it will take for people to be able to make it on
> their own.
>
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> Tor Forde
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