Prof Guy Standing: Precariat And Peasant: Reframing Social Protection For The 21st Century, SOAS

[@groenaalst8302]

He describes my situation so accurately and with so much empathie and understanding, I'm moved. I've got tears in my eyes. Still a long way to go, before this knowlegde becomes comon knowledge.

[@33Crazydude]

Excellent speech coming from Guy Standing

[@orthelius]

this is the most important speech of this century

[@UweKulick]

sound!

[@JanosAbel]

What do you mean? Could you not hear the video, or is it not a sound system Standing is advocating?

[@UweKulick]

I had to switch to maximum Volume ....

[@JanosAbel]

I concur with you, Robin, although I would call it one of the speeches in a most important genre in social discourse Gar Alperovitz, for example, is on about the same thing. The genre is also addressing this important issue in therms of Social Evolution. That is not an abstract notion but one that concerns an area of *arrested development* in society and economics; a failure, so far, in adapting to the changes wrought by the Industrial/scientific revolutions to in the human world.

[@gertsy2000]

We need to ensure people's rights by taking control of them and jolly well having them do what we say. Yep. $1.4 trillion in social services. An economist that doesn't know where tax revenue comes from nor basic math? All people are equal......

[@1namrog]

Professor Standing's solution is potentially viable for developing, underdeveloped nations, but it wouldn't even help to mitigate the issues in Western developed post-industrial nations; that is precarious labor and a labor surplus. 'Guaranteed income for all' appeals to immediate humanitarian motives, and it appeals to potential beneficiaries, but it doesn't address the underlying problems! The data from Indian pilots by nature can't be projected elsewhere. Switzerland may be a Western pilot...