Basic income: utopia or solution? | Guy Standing | TEDxLakeComo

[@valerianardelean9235]

The guy Guy Standing, standing

[@barraqali336]

Brilliant analysis and the courage to challenge those who are destroying the world because they are greedy, merciless, and selfish to the point of criminality.

[@rainbowpierrot1951]

Necessary move forward

[@SleekMinister]

They used to have wars to settle debts, and before that they had debt jubilees - the first coins were probably used to pay soldiers, who then could carry a year's worth of salary.

[@sebas8225]

@@SleekMinister Then the paid soldiers would come to bars and pay for booze and meals, the bar owners would then after sustent their business on that pay.

[@l.zachero2856]

Eight giants: 1. Inequality 2. Chronic insecurity 3. Pandemic of stress 4. Sense of precarity 5. Live in debt 6. Threat of extintion 7. Neo-fascism I don't find the 8th one. Thanks for helping me to find it.

[@jonaskawaya9044]

from Congo TEDx Talks... level up

[@AyyHotDogS]

he really is standing

[@Juliapak]

very cool! I'm with you. A basic income improves the ability to walk away and say no

[@jelliotharris]

There is another major issue looming - artificial intelligence, products that required many workers can now be made with fewer. There will not be enough jobs for the population.

[@canadaey4833]

Even Conservative minded people agree that UBI is a much better alternative than what we have right now. Multiple different and similar kinds of social welfare which always leave some people behind are difficult to understand, discriminate against some people, and are changed every few years in the hope this time the politicians get it right. We the People need to stand up all together and demonstrate for UBI, on facebook, youbute and all the other social media as well as in front of our government buildings. We Can Do It!

[@SleekMinister]

Basic income is an acknowledgement that you have to pay to live. All wilderness is claimed as property, and living in the few places where it is possible to live free, is harsh and unforgiving.

[@granudisimo]

Damn, you just gave UBI a terraforming undertone I can't get out of my head.

[@KapoiosAnthropos]

What if you could choose between a free life or the UBI, BUT accept all the pros & cons....Is that fair?

[@KapoiosAnthropos]

Meaning you could be part of that universal community, or not. Its your choice

[@larrycarter1192]

I think he was talking about a standard of living that people can't afford. Most of The world can't afford the standard of living that most Americans seem to enjoy everyday. That's why they want to move here. They don't know the American dream is dead.

[@AllRoadsLeadToYah]

With the rise of Automation and the inevitable displacement of 30-40% of the global workforce. Without UBI there would be Global Depression. True dystopian potentially. I understand your discern for the new system. But I have to ask. Would you still be employed? Would you be a skilled enough employee to be essential to the new economy? Automation will create an inflation on eduction. I’m a graduate student on my own accord. For stem cell research. But not everyone wants or needs to do that. Im cynical and did not like this paradigm shift. But our monetary system is collapsing in real time. There’s a huge retirement bubble in America as it is. Along with a multitude of others I will leave out for now.

[@anthonylipke7754]

Wish we could bring into the discussion of how debt is created to bring money into circulation.

[@SleekMinister]

Politicians use government bonds to get quick money without asking the assembly, since it's a matter of investment, and not politics.

[@pierre-rose7783]

Excellent!

[@sparshmahesh]

Jeff hasn't increased his income by $400 million, his wealth has increased. Lot of difference. PS - I support UBI

[@electronthenerd]

finally, i've found him standing

[@kayedal-haddad]

What would you set UBI at here in the UK?

[@WizardOfCheese]

11:50 100% 12:50 its not considered work if they cant tax it. 13:30 brexit ?

[@cerulean22b69]

So this sounds great, but how can we make it a reality? What must be done to really change things? Various people have been talking about it for years but nothing ever happens.

[@laxmankolhe]

Excellent thanks

[@geovanabettero1020]

É para aplaudir de pé!!!

[@harshgupta8180]

7:24 "we have a pamdamic..." Yes sir... Oh wait ... Video is two years old

[@spearmint4093]

please let me join ! how do i do that? to fight for basic income. ive been pecariat my whole life :( and im 30 now

[@jerseycowman5507]

Arguments for ubi are almost always focused on the human aspect of things, this being important, is not the full story. I would like to hear an argument for ubi from an economic standpoint as an investment into society and how it can in turn benefit the macroeconomic of a nation... FYI my position is for universal Healthcare but against UBI. That being said I love pragmatic discussions and new ideas!

[@rigohook1160]

I would be for an Ubi, but i fear if everybody gets, lets say, €1000/month today, tomorrow rent would rise for a1000. All those nice money would go to those in power already.

[@Chr.Skagvard]

This has not been the case in any test study, more economic mobility makes capitalism work as intended. It’s the people that are stuck living where they are that cause the problem with rent increases. If you have the opportunity to take another job there are plenty of places in modern society where houses can be bought or rented at 1/10th the cost

[@geovanabettero1020]

Resumo das minhas preocupações existênciais S2

[@imaginx806]

Who was the king?

[@thatisabsolutelykooooge2211]

Look up “Charter of the Forest”

[@chrisdawson1776]

He be standing tho

[@nickraoyj]

"One of my favourites is Jeff Bezos" 🤣🤣🤣 I think US 2020 Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang must have studied Prof Guy Standing's work too, they sound so similar!

[@chadsmith66]

All congress says we cant afford it but now with the pandemic they pull trillions out, it'll nvr happen in the U.S. Due to greed

[@coolcatdozzit6482]

Agree with the premise for the basic income in principle, but how do you persuade liberal democratic goverments (& politicians) to stop being beholden to the corporations agendas? It sems like a good idea and seemingly most feasible in Social Democratic Scandinavia ( with its long history of Social Democratic welfarism and egalitarian and social democratic values), where you are actually preaching to the already converted, BUT try doing the same in purely free market economies, i.e. UK/ USA ( with more complex / bigger demographies, or where US blue collar workers instead of voting for Sanders endorsed a pathelogical right wing billionaire liar Trump ) and your chances are greatly minminised. Coporrations hold here for more sway and power over so called " spineless" politicians who willingly do their bidding, NOT that of the 99% who toil and produce the wealth and profits for the 1% living in luxury. Growth talk has noting to do with sustainable developement.

[@SleekMinister]

The climate change scare seems to be the build up to a storm of innovation, since they're using the old austerity argument to further it. Houses of cards tend fall in on themselves.

[@HardKore5250]

More jobs created than what will lose to automation

[@MarkusSoederberg]

Are you really saying theres gonna be more jobs created than what will be lost to automation ? if so then you are really not considering real facts.. just to ponder about, How many taxi drivers are there in the whole world ? how many truck drivers ? and then their downfall = the self driving car / Trucks.. People who's been out drinking wont even need a taxi driver since all they need to do is jump into their car tell it to go home voila! millions of taxi drivers without work. then think of the even bigger business of truck drivers hauling freight all over the world... these are just 2 examples of work thats gonna stop existing .

[@HardKore5250]

The new jobs that will be created will be for the more skilled and the less skilled will be in trouble. But for now only robots are replacing tasks not jobs in the future might be replacing jobs.

[@HardKore5250]

The new jobs that will be created will be for the more skilled and the less skilled will be in trouble. But for now only robots are replacing tasks not jobs in the future might be replacing jobs.

[@HardKore5250]

The new jobs that will be created will be for the more skilled and the less skilled will be in trouble. But for now only robots are replacing tasks not jobs in the future might be replacing jobs.

[@HardKore5250]

The new jobs that will be created will be for the more skilled and the less skilled will be in trouble. But for now only robots are replacing tasks not jobs in the future might be replacing jobs.

[@nikosnastoulis]

He doesn't like standing... He looks really angry! haha

[@cynthiamarquez3370]

Maybe his feet hurt.

[@educationentertainment-tv]

The answer is bitcoin universal basic income

[@SleekMinister]

Bitcoin is a cubist response to inflation of the social contract. Not the anarchist revolution everyone profess it to be, but a new way of contracting.

[@sebas8225]

Sounds fun, eitherway

[@jace15076]

I hope it happens. It will be the end of left wing economics forever.

[@keijikeizai]

This was a rather unpleasant, uninformative talk, coming from an economist I first had regarded as a leader in the field of basic income.