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£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.
Also at The Guardian and CNBC.
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UK's Royal Society of Arts Proposes £10,000, 2-Year Basic Income
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Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday February 17 2018, @06:37PM (4 children)
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @08:56PM (3 children)
Wow, what a creative way to do a French revolution. Not sure its great for the kiddies in the crib, but sure is innovative. Forget fake boogie-men, hang the heads of the real ones so the lesson sinks in from birth!
You sir are a sick sick person.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday February 18 2018, @07:23AM (2 children)
You mean where the rich people flee the country and the leaders of revolution then turn on anyone that they can conveniently blame in order to secure their positions? That's real creative.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday February 20 2018, @07:25AM (1 child)
What country are they going to flee to?
This "Globalization", "World is flat ( in the economic sense )", "One World Order"... the whole bofangled world is caught up in the debt mess.
Most of us simply can't pass up living "beyond our means" when "easy credit" is available.
I believe very few of us know how this "magic trick" works, and end up spending far more than we think for things.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday February 20 2018, @02:18PM
The rest of the developed world and most of the developing world, for example.
Except, of course, when your country is in the midst of a self-destructive revolution, and almost everybody else is not.
Such a person is easy to evade by anyone who does even a bit of planning.