Name: MLK & ユニバーサル・ベーシック・インカム｜所得保証（5つの理由 (MLK & Universal Basic Income | Guaranteed Income (5 Reasons))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:09:05.000Z
Duration: 5 min 52 s
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Martin Luther King Jr. was working on a campaign...

...as a result of automation and cybernation.

"...unless something grand and imaginative is done."

"A true revolution of values will soon look
uneasily..."

"...on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth."

"It will look at thousands of working people..."

"...displaced from their jobs with reduced income..."

"...while the profits of the employers remain intact..."

"...we are demanding a guaranteed income..."

"...at levels that sustains life and decent circumstances."

"Poor black and white are still perishing..."

"...in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."

MLK wrote he was convinced a guaranteed income
was "the most effective" solution to poverty.

He argued past anti-poverty programs failed because...

"We are likely to find that the problem of
housing / education..."

"...instead of preceding the elimination of poverty..."

"...will themselves be effected if poverty is first abolished."

"The poor transformed into purchasers..."

"...will do a great deal on their own..."

"...the work which improves the condition of mankind..."

"It is not the work of slaves, driven to their task..."

"...either by a task master or by animal necessities."

...even if people didn't need a paycheck...

...they would still perform valuable work.

Like working to raise the next generation.

"In a state of society where want is abolished..."

"...work of this sort could be enormously increased."

"A guaranteed income could be done for about $20 billion a year..."

...to fight an unjust evil war in Vietnam...

...to put God's children on their own two feet...

We are arrogant in professing to be concerned about the freedom of foreign nations...

...while not setting our own house in order.

America is celebrated as the "land of liberty".

...if you have no income, you have no liberty.

"We hold these truths to be self evident:"

"...that they are endowed by their creator
with certain inalienable rights..."

"...life liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness."

But if a man doesn't have a job or an income,

...[nor] the possibility for the pursuit of happiness."

"Now one of the answers it seems to me..."