Last saturday I watched a lecture by Jurgen Habermas.
He supported the idea of a citizen's income.
Two reasons he gave was:
1. Given globalisation and lesser opportunity for the countries to
control their economies and increased competition; it becomes almost
impossible to avoid considerable unemployment.
In this way the international community chooses a rather high
unemployment rate. And it is unfair to let the poorest part of
population carry all the burdens of this choice.
2. Legitimacy. When the community chooses to keep a considerable part
of the population unemployed and in misery, the institutions of
society are going to loose their legitimacy.
And that is in many ways the end of democracy, and the beginning of a
policestate.
Tor Forde
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