SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
£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.
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
UK's Royal Society of Arts Proposes £10,000, 2-Year Basic Income
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| 85 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
While most peoples' opinions change, the conviction of their
correctness never does.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 18 2018, @05:30AM (2 children)
Point me to an argument in recent history that I've lost
I'm reminded of the song|movie "Ride the Wild Surf".
The nitwit who wrote the lyrics|script seems to think that the last guy who continues to surf after the waves have broken up and gotten just plain dangerous is the best surfer.
(That nitwit had clearly never witnessed a surfing competition.)
Relating this to you:
Insisting on getting the last comment in a (sub)thread is not the same thing as winning the argument.
Often, your lack of knowledge and lame opinions simply become wearisome.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 18 2018, @12:18PM (1 child)
Interesting. I ask for evidence and get ad hom in response. Thank you for handing me that victory.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday February 19 2018, @11:06AM
To help him out a little, I'm still awaiting a rebuttal to my observation that you consider hypothetical and potentially harmful species more valuable than extant ones [soylentnews.org] (my first 3 paragraphs) although I appreciate that was a long discussion we were drawing to a close and I know you're quite a busy Buzzard.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?