Name: なぜベーシックインカムなのか？ (Why Basic Income?)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:01:22.000Z
Duration: 7 min 43 s
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I'm in San Francisco California with a large group of people here

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who are really into the idea of basic income

which the concept that everybody should be given enough money every month to provide for basic human necessities

And my project is to interrupt them and ask them about it.

One of the main reasons for basic income is that our economic system is messed up.

It sucks wealth to the very top so that as the economy grows

the rich get richer but everybody else doesn't.

The campaign for basic income is not a strategy for dealing with poverty,

All people in the world have value and they should be recognized for the value that they provide. Not go hungry.

Shouldn't everybody have to work to earn money though?

Does your mom work if she stayed home and took care of you?

Your life will be drastically different your mom wasn't giving away that free work.

There's a lot of creative potential in the world and a lot of it is spent on things that people don't really care about.

Things that bring them money in order to subsist.

And so with the basic income people can work on creative endeavors that are less monetizable.

When kids are little we tell them all that they can be anything they want to be when they grow up

Because you can only be what you want to be if you have the money to support yourself

Basic Income turns that lie into a truth because it gives people a way to support themselves until they can be what it is that they want to be.

To me basic income is about empowering everybody to be in control of their destiny.

It's something that's especially valued in America. And people get really riled up about it.

But when you look at most people's lives, there actually isn't freedom in their work.

And you don't have this freedom of saying no today because everyone needs to work to make a living.

And I think everybody should be able to make a living because they're human beings.

Because it creates the freedom, the real freedom, that enables you to say no.

Having a job is important but really at the foundation of having a job is having a role in society.

What we should do is work of course and contribute to society. But in a way we find meaningful.

I support Basic Income to ensure a basic level of economic stability to all people.

People make better decisions about how to use their money somebody who doesn't even know them like some government entities.

Studies have shown now the most effective way to get people out of poverty is just give people money.

Some people might need to pay for their education. Maybe a new start up or a business.

We need to figure out solutions to climate change

take a really hard look at racism, police brutality, violence in our society

I think in order to solve these problems we need the energy of all the people

who are currently trapped in jobs where they're not producing anything except for profit.

Basic income can liberate us from the obsession that activity is a good in and of itself as long as it generates money.

I don't think that's true. And I think it's obvious to everybody that it's not true.

Because I wanna world that works for everybody.

I support the basic income because it would be the first step towards system change.

So people would not leave in a state of constant fearing losing their jobs, losing their security

There's this constant fear and really evident throughout the workplace

that if I don't send an email to my boss at three in the morning

they're going to think that I'm slacking off

it uses so much energy to hold on to that amount of fear

that when it comes to trying to do something positive there's no time.

People say oh I don't have the time. I have to earn my money.

But when they have their basic needs covered with basic income, this argument doesn't count anymore.

Because now they have the time if they want.

In a democracy you need to be able to participate.

In governance, discussion, just getting involved.

And you can only do that to the extent that you have the time in the resources to do so.

Technology is changing our world faster than ever.

On one hand it's making our processes more efficient.

On the other hand its resulting in unemployment and instability in people's lives.

As we use technology to automate work that humans are doing, every human should feel some of that benefit.

Maybe having a future where people don't have to work 40 hours a week.

It's not all about constantly working a job.

It's about sharing prosperity that we're creating.

And shifting towards a society that really supports an automated future.

So we need some system that's built into our economy.

So that automatically, as the tide rises, all boats, not just the yachts---all boats, rise with it.

The future of work with the automation will come.

And it will not support the people by itself.

If the people that own the automation just receive all the rewards of it,

there's no way that society could never keep up with that.

Computerization is going to hollow out the middle income of America.

This means that all jobs that are routine will be computerized or robots will be deployed to do these jobs.

It's interesting being here with all the talk about robots.

But I think we should be doing this with or without robots.

We have an abundance and it's just morally unacceptable

that we now have enough stuff but are not distributing it to everyone and their basic needs are met

I live in San Francisco where there are 6,500 homeless people

and that should not be happening in a city of such immense incredible wealth.

And one of the ways to end that is to provide some amount of power to people have no power at this moment

People who are squeezed. And can be taken advantage of because they are squeezed.

A lot of people will reject basic income because they think no one should get something for nothing right?

If we're going to increase happiness. If we're going to increase social stability.

I love the concept of basic income because they make sure that everybody has a place to start.

We live in a time here in the US where we are so politically and ideologically divided

that we can't get anything done. We can't agree on anything.

well I believe a universal basic income is not left or right. It's forward.

This is something that we can all agree upon.

Everyone from Milton Friedman to MLK agrees it's the right thing to do i.

In Milton Friedman's case it's the just thing to do in that it decreases the complexity of government.

And from MLK's perspective, it's the way to end the cycle of poverty and economic injustice.

This is a simple and in terms of administration...quite cheap cost effective way to dramatically reduce poverty.

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