<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">John Restakis</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:restakis@gmail.com">restakis@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 4:56 AM<br>Subject: Re: UBI ands the Precariat<br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>Yet one more cautionary tale about the misuse of UBI, this one coming from the much touted initiative in Finland.</div><div><br></div><div><p style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><font face="HelveticaNeue-Light">"It is technically possible to create a broad-based UBI that increases worker bargaining power and leisure while decreasing inequality and poverty, especially in a wealthy country like the United States.</font></p><p style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><font face="HelveticaNeue-Light">But it is just as possible to redirect the energy behind a liberatory UBI into implementing a <a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/01/universal-basic-income-switzerland-finland-milton-friedman-kathi-weeks/" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)" target="_blank">conservative one</a> — forcing unemployed workers into bad jobs while undermining organized labor, earnings equality, and the welfare state.</font></p><p style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><font face="HelveticaNeue-Light">Indeed, it is even possible to pull off such a bait-and-switch while convincing the rest of the world that you are engaged in progressive policymaking."</font></p><div><a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/ubi-finland-centre-party-unemployment-jobs/" target="_blank">https://www.jacobinmag.com/<wbr>2017/01/ubi-finland-centre-<wbr>party-unemployment-jobs/</a></div><div><br></div><div>John</div></div></div></div>
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