A Basic Income for All

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Take-Aways

• Due to an increase in automation, the debate regarding a universal basic income – a “government payment to all citizens, either as a supplement to or a replacement for paid working income” – is heightening.
• While the political right and left agree on the need for some form of universal basic income, they clash over how such a model could work.
• An “ethical argument” in favor of a universal basic income posits that citizens have a duty to contribute to the common good through work or other means. This view emphasizes the idea of “mutual indebtedness” and discourages freeloading.

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