Oct 9, 2012

We're All Better Off When We're All Better Off - Rich Barton | HopperandDropper.com

We're All Better Off When We're All Better Off - Rich Barton | HopperandDropper.com

This statement is from a book called The Gardens of Democracy.

What Basic Income, Basic Capital, and Citizen-ownership Democracy want to achieve is precisely these. Getting everybody better off.

There are many perspectives on why citizens should get regular income/dividend from their countries.

1. Human dignity. No one should have to live in abject poverty when the country is prosperous.
2. Welfare.
3. Citizen-ownership rights. Citizens have the right to regular incomes from their share of the common wealth in their countries.
4. Economics. Such income will stimulate the economy.
5. Eradicating poverty.
6. Justice. As the Pope has said, people deserve money from their being (being citizens and owners of their countries), not just from their acting.
7. Stability. A big mass of people in poverty is an invitation for a revolution.

Not everybody agrees with this statement. Some believes that the rich should get richer while the poor get poorer. One argument, put forward by the rich, is that if the rich don't get richer, the poor will get very much poorer. Can the rich and the poor both get richer?

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