In Favor: Democracy Enhanced and Social Justice, Too!

Robert E. Wright () and Aleksandra Przegalińska ()
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Robert E. Wright: American Institute for Economic Research
Aleksandra Przegalińska: Kozminski University

Chapter Chapter 11 in Debating Universal Basic Income, 2022, pp 91-94 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract UBI will enhance democracy and social justice because people will be more equal economically. It will emancipate people from subservience to employers, landlords, parents, spouses, and others who control the economically fragile. UBI essentially pays people to be good citizens, freeing their time to examine policies and politicians more carefully than they can do when trying to make a living, go to school, and so forth. It will reduce crime, too, and hence the number of disenfranchised people. Finally, it will unite people in a web of democratic mutual interdependence.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17513-8_11

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