Automatic Basic Income

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    Basic income is not a new idea, but the automation with which we can do it is newer than these supporters Thomas More, John Locke and Thomas Paine.

    Automatic Basic Income (ABI) will be a necessity for the survival of humanity and the planet. Some call this UBI, where the 'U' stands for either "Universal" or "Unconditional", depending on who you ask.

    “If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.”

    Organizations

    Possible sources of money for ABI

    • Our automation wealth in the w:free software stack, which causes falling costs for companies and societies and more services for less money
    • Improved taxation e.g. the new model proposed by the w:OECD
    • w:Helicopter money i.e. central bank stimulating economy by printing money and giving it to the reservoir to pay for ABI

    Addressing the need for tax reform

    ABI around the world[edit | edit source]

    Asia[edit | edit source]

    Sikkim, India[edit | edit source]

    w:Sikkim is a state in India, which has successfully developed hydro power projects and subsequently produces almost 10x as much electricity than it consumes and they will roll out ABI in the early 2020s.

    Africa[edit | edit source]

    GiveDirectly.org crowdsources funds to run an ABI scheme in Kenya. It is ABI, because the money is distributed through the M-Pesa mobile banking app[2] hence it is automatic.

    GiveDirectly.org w:GiveDirectly launched a basic income experiment in Kenya in 2016.

    On 2019-11-21 a paper on the GiveDirectly experiment 'General equilibrium effects of cash transfers:experimental evidence from Kenya' was published.[3].

    Reporting on the GiveDirectly ABI experiment in Western Africa in reverse chronological order

    Europe[edit | edit source]

    Germany[edit | edit source]

    North America[edit | edit source]

    Canada[edit | edit source]

    Basic income in wikis[edit | edit source]

    Other wikis[edit | edit source]

    Wikimedia foundation wikis[edit | edit source]

    Wikipedia

    The Finnish Wikipedia

    Other

    Links[edit | edit source]

    References[edit | edit source]

    1. https://www.reddit.com/user/Prof-Stephen-Hawking
    2. https://www.givedirectly.org/faq/
    3. Miguel, Edward; Egger, Dennis; Haushofer, Johannes; Niehaus, Paul; Walker, Michael (2019-11-21). "General equilibrium effects of cash transfers:experimental evidence from Kenya" (PDF). GiveDirectly.org. Retrieved 2019-12-12. Cite has empty unknown parameters: |separator=, |deadurl=, |registration=, and |subscription= (help); Check |authorlink1= value (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)