We all have to dream.
I want to start with a very famous saying
It is impossible, dreamers impossible,
Instead of slaves,
Social development paints a creative force.
My dream is that every one of us, in every society,
He must have a basic income as a right.
Basic individual income given as a right,
Without conditions, and paid individually.
For a long time such an idea could have been considered a dream.
An impossible dream
But in the past two years a significant number of people,
Including Nobel Prize winners and others like you,
They realized that it was not only possible, but worthwhile, desirable and affordable.
If noticeable change.
We have created a network called (BIN)
Basic income earth network,
I wish at least one of you to hear me
He will join us in the struggle.
Because it will be a struggle, and it will not come unless we collectively demand it.
This is acceptable and desirable.
Now, what is the context?
The context is that we are undergoing a global transformation,
In which the global market system develops,
But insecurity and inequality are multiplying all over the world.
In this process, a new class structure is formed.
The largest mass group is (Brekaria):
People who are forced to accept an unstable working life without a professional identity,
Relying on low stagnant financial wages,
Without rights.
They are plaintiffs, they had to apply for favors.
Beggars, really.
It is a process that affects millions of people,
Many of them have since published my books written to me telling me their stories.
There is a risk in that
The danger is that the winners become fearful,
Because people like us are starting to get angry.
So they began to listen to the discussions on basic income.
Now what is the basic income justification?
First, in fact, very important,
Basic income is the demand for social justice
Justice means that we must recognize each and every one of us, individually –
That the wealth and income of any one of us is much more to do with the efforts of our ancestors
Of anything you or we do for ourselves.
But why must we have a special inheritance of wealth,
And not a social legacy?
So you can see basic income as a kind of social profit
On the collective wealth produced by our forefathers.
This is a basic requirement that is connected to Thomas Payne for social justice.
The second rationale for basic income is that it will improve and enhance our sense of freedom.
Republican freedom, as philosophers call it.
This freedom means freedom that is not dominated by the numbers of power.
Be abusive husbands, bureaucrats, government officials, or whatever.
This sense of freedom has been lost in the last 30 years of globalization
For millions and millions of people.
The third rationale is that we need basic security.
Without basic security we all become illogical.
We are unable to control ourselves, our times,
And dealing with the stresses of life.
But if basic safety, as psychologists and economists taught us,
You will not be able to deal better with stress alone
But you will be more tolerant towards others,
Will be more altruistic and more productive in what you do.
Believe me, as we have found,
When you have primary security, you will work more, not less.
When it works, it will produce more, cooperate more, not less.
It’s a lie to say
That if we have basic income security we will become lazy.
On the contrary, it will release energies and dynamism
Within ourselves, and within our societies.
But we need basic security for an essential reason,
That is why the elites and the rich are suddenly listening to this debate.
If we do not have basic security, it is part of the bricari
The least educated part, not in this room, but a lot of people,
We will listen to populist sirens, from neo-fascist fanaticism.
Now their hero is (Donald Trump).
I hope to laugh a bit more.
(Laughter)
(Donald Trump)
You have your charismatic equivalent in Austria, do not let it be too arrogant.
We in Britain have the equivalent.
In France, (Marin Le Pen)
Theaters will be cut in the next few months.
But unless we have basic security for the average person in the Brekarya,
More and more people will be inclined to support this type.
This is a danger to all of us, is not it?
Basic income will also have beneficial advantages in the economy,
Promoting development and growth.
It will be environmentally sustainable,
Because it will encourage many people
To spend more time in an important job is not a job.
Workers use resources in jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
The work we do in our societies, to take care of our relatives, to take care of things around us,
More environmentally sustainable.
We need a slow movement of time to go with a slow food movement.
These are realistic possibilities, which means changing our concept of growth.
Now I would like to conclude my conversation
By thinking about something that was a dream I did not expect to be aware of.
For a long time, people have said that basic income is impossible
For a long time people said, “Only in rich countries.”
Then I was working with (Siwa)
Women’s Self-Employed Association of India.
I talked to them about basic income,
A young woman stood up and said, “Why do not we try it here?”
Since that time it took us three years to design and collect money,
We have provided 6,000 men, women and children, in nine areas,
With a basic income of 18 months.
And we compared what happened with them
With a similar number of people in other regions who have not received basic income.
So the randomized controlled experiment was.
What happened was: First and foremost, welfare improved.
Improved nutrition people, sanitation, children’s education,
Improved people’s health,
We only have this book, with a woman in the front of a suit: she has no legs.
At the beginning of the experiment,
She was very poor did not have clothes to wear in public places.
On the end of the experience she had a lovely sari,
It owns sewing machine,
She wants to become a seamstress, stitching out of the village.
With dignity, do the work.
In addition to the effects of well-being, there were effects on equity.
If you have a basic income equal to everyone,
Relatively poor, and relatively disadvantaged
Benefit more than the rich.
But it’s right, so everyone has to own it, okay?
They are reasonably priced, as they showed
In this other book that just comes out.
Now, in addition to the impact of equality, there is also economic impact.
In contrast to all these affected people,
Who said that if people are given a basic income they will sit helpless and drink,
And indulge in things that you should not do,
Etc ..
Sonia Gandhi told us that this was a waste of money! Waste of money!
So we were interested in seeing it.
As it turned out, in every area, work improved!
In each region, women in particular
Be able to do better types of work,
Access to resources.
The only group in which the work was relegated was children!
This is terrible, we really have to fear this.
The reason was, of course, that they were going to school.
This is a real setback.
I hope you do not believe it.
Now, in addition, people have been more pioneers,
In their small ways,
Such a woman buys a sewing machine with the help of her family.
As we have seen people who have been in debt for generations, in debt bondage.
They used their basic basic income
Some of their relatives contributed, so they could buy their freedom.
This leads to the fourth effect.
The fourth result is emancipation.
The liberalized value of the basic income is greater than the monetary value.
We only give a small amount, but that means that people have liquidity.
This means that people have a certain situation in their community.
That means people were controlling and setting aside
In loans and dealing with debt and this kind of issues.
And freedom we have seen in our experiences in India
As shown in our experiences in Africa,
It will appear in experiments
Which is now being carried out in Finland, in the Netherlands,
In Canada, and in California, where I was invited.
It will show that emancipation means a lot.
I would like to end my talk by mentioning two stories.
I went to one of the villages, the Indian village at first.
We had to get everyone to sign a card
In order to receive basic income each month.
But all the women in that village wore the niqab
So we could not take pictures of them.
They had to go to a hut,
And that their photographs are taken individually.
I returned to that village six months later, during the experiment.
I told my colleague Lee,
“Have you noticed a change in the village?”
“No,” he said.
I said: “All women do not wear hijab”
Why did that happen?
So we invited some women.
We asked them, and they were reluctant to say anything, as if they were talking to strangers.
Then one of them said, “I’ll tell you.”
Previously we were doing what our elders were telling us.
Now we have a little money in our pockets, we can decide for ourselves. “
That is freedom.
In our two African experiments, in the end, I asked some people,
“What’s the best thing about getting a basic income?”
Some young women were invited from the other side.
I asked the question, laughed, and did not want to answer.
One of them was brave and said, “I’ll tell you, for us.
Previously, when men return from the fields,
At the end of the month, and their money in their portfolio,
We were saying, “Yes.” Now, we say “no”.
This is liberation.
Thank you so much.
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