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UK's Royal Society of Arts Proposes £10,000, 2-Year Basic Income

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday February 17 2018, @03:34AM   
from the what-would-rivest-do? dept.

takyon writes:

£10,000 proposed for everyone under 55

The government should give £10,000 to every citizen under 55, a report suggests.

The Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) said it could pave the way to everyone getting a basic state wage.

The idea sees two payments of £5,000 paid over two years, but certain state benefits and tax reliefs would be removed at the same time.

The RSA said it would compensate workers for the way jobs are changing.

The money would help to steer UK citizens through the 2020s, "as automation replaces many jobs, climate change hits and more people face balancing employment with social care", the report said.

Royal Society of Arts.

Also at The Guardian and CNBC.

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• GitHub pay me a Coder's Stipend, bro! GitHub pay me a Coder's Stipend, bro! (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @04:06AM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @04:06AM (#639196)

  Where's my compensation for all my GitHub contributions? I bust my ass coding open source! Where's my fucking income, bro?

  Nationalize GitHub now and collect a Software Tax like your communist hero Richard Stallman fucking told you to do!

  All sorts of development can be funded with a Software Tax:

  Suppose everyone who buys a computer has to pay x percent of the price as a software tax. The government gives this to an agency like the NSF to spend on software development.

  But if the computer buyer makes a donation to software development himself, he can take a credit against the tax. He can donate to the project of his own choosing—often, chosen because he hopes to use the results when it is done. He can take a credit for any amount of donation up to the total tax he had to pay.

  The total tax rate could be decided by a vote of the payers of the tax, weighted according to the amount they will be taxed on.

  The consequences:

  The computer-using community supports software development.
  This community decides what level of support is needed.
  Users who care which projects their share is spent on can choose this for themselves.

  In the long run, making programs free is a step toward the postscarcity world, where nobody will have to work very hard just to make a living. People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun, such as programming, after spending the necessary ten hours a week on required tasks such as legislation, family counseling, robot repair and asteroid prospecting. There will be no need to be able to make a living from programming.

  We have already greatly reduced the amount of work that the whole society must do for its actual productivity, but only a little of this has translated itself into leisure for workers because much nonproductive activity is required to accompany productive activity. The main causes of this are bureaucracy and isometric struggles against competition. Free software will greatly reduce these drains in the area of software production. We must do this, in order for technical gains in productivity to translate into less work for us.

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• Re:GitHub pay me a Coder's Stipend, bro! Re:GitHub pay me a Coder's Stipend, bro! (Score: 4, Insightful) by tftp on Saturday February 17 2018, @04:33AM (1 child)

  by tftp (806) on Saturday February 17 2018, @04:33AM (#639211) Homepage

  "Read my lips: No new taxes!" (c)

  The problem with taxes is that the people can only approve them. That's all. There is hardly any way to prevent their misuse. And good luck trying to cancel them when 500+ politicians are dead against.

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    Re:GitHub pay me a Coder's Stipend, bro! (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @05:56AM

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