Franklin Wayne Poley wrote:
>
> If a basic income is NOT guarnteed, then who will be refused the basic
> amenities of life first? And who will decide who is most deserving of death?
> FWP.
What I wrote is that a Guaranteed Basic Income might be a less expensive
way to put people away than prison. Of course it is guaranteed, if not
it was not a Guaranteed Income.
>
> On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Tor Forde wrote:
>
> > The danger that a Guaranted Annual Income is posing is that it can be a
> > way to put people away.
> > I think everybody wants to make their part of the World their home, in
> > some away. By putting their mark on it, by understanding it, by defining
> > it, by creating a part of it. That is what people want!
> > I am not against a Guaranteed Annual Income, but should it be without
> > any conditions? I think that might be harmful to those who receives the
> > Guaranteed Annual Income. People want in some way to be part of their
> > World, either as the World is today or as they wish the World to be.
> > A condition for getting a Guaranteed Annual Income could be to do
> > something they want to do, and tell/show it to the community.
> > Write a poem, learn something, build something, help somebody, take part
> > in something. Just do not sit and wither away in front of a TV screen!
> > Do not spend all week every week just drinking beer!
> >
> > This question has been discussed in Norway. And the reason given by f.ex
> > the Labour Party to oppose a Guaranteed Annual Income is that it will
> > bring up people who live in misery all their lives, many of them in
> > lonelieness outside society.
> >
> > I am not going for workfare: that people should be forced to work for
> > wages less than union wages.
> >
> > It is not an easy question. The Telephone company here in Norway has
> > been laying off lots of people. Many of them have been keeping both an
> > office and their pay for a long time, and their work have been to find
> > something else to do. It has been a depressing situation to many.
> > But others have been doing fine with an extra contribution, f.ex people
> > with a very small farm, to small to make a living from, have been able
> > to build it into something that they could live from while they were on
> > a kind of social security.
> > A Guaranteed Annual Income could be regarded as a kind of scholarship
> > that lasted as long as it will take for people to be able to make it on
> > their own.
> >
> >
> > Tor Forde
> >
> >
> >
> > email:
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> >
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