Comments on: The Guaranteed Minimum Income as an alternative to the Basic Income https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-guaranteed-minimum-income-as-an-alternative-to-the-basic-income/ Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:53:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.16 By: Tom https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-guaranteed-minimum-income-as-an-alternative-to-the-basic-income/comment-page-1/#comment-554141 Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:53:06 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=33444#comment-554141 “In view of the fact that higher classes do not really need a BI, it seems to be more interesting to insist on the introduction, in all EU Member States, …”

Targeted policies does not a robust welfare society make. The most successful welfare societies have largely universalistic institutional structures and that is not by accident. The basic income is an extension of that universalistic tradition.

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