THE INSPIRED WARRIOR CANADIAN ACTIVIST HUB

THE INSPIRED WARRIOR CANADIAN ACTIVIST HUB

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"Ideas can and do change the world," says historian Rutger Bregman, sharing his case for a provocative one: guaranteed basic income. Learn more about the idea's 500-year history and a forgotten modern experiment where it actually worked -- and imagine how much energy and talent we would unleash if we got rid of poverty once and for all.
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7 Ways Doug Ford Will Make Life Harder For People
7 Ways Doug Ford Will Make Life Harder For People
August 2017 - North99 founded North99 was founded as a non-profit with a mission to give a voice to working class people, their issues and to counter the rise of right-wing online content through our social media advocacy. The non-profit quickly grew to have the most engaged and viral online progressive social media accounts in Canada, reaching millions of Canadians every month. February 2020 - Passage founded The team quickly realized there was a need for a publication to examine what the mai
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7 Ways Doug Ford Will Make Life Harder For People
Universal basic income wouldn’t make people lazy–it would change the nature of work
Universal basic income wouldn’t make people lazy–it would change the nature of work
Americans believe in the importance of a good day’s work. And so it’s understandable that the prospect of a universal basic income (UBI), in which the government would issue checks to cover the basic costs of living, rubs some people the wrong way. Writing in The Week in 2014, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry envisions a UBI dystopia in which ā€œmillions of peopleā€ are ā€œlisting away in socially destructive idleness,ā€ with ā€œthe consequences of this lost productivity reverberating throughout the society in lower growth and, probably, lower employment.ā€
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Universal basic income wouldn’t make people lazy–it would change the nature of work