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In Favor: Democracy Enhanced and Social Justice, Too!

In: Debating Universal Basic Income

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  • Robert E. Wright

    (American Institute for Economic Research)

  • Aleksandra Przegalińska

    (Kozminski University)

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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.

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  • Robert E. Wright & Aleksandra Przegalińska, 2022. "In Favor: Democracy Enhanced and Social Justice, Too!," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: Debating Universal Basic Income, chapter 0, pages 91-94, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-3-031-17513-8_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17513-8_11
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