JONNY STEINBERG: SA could grant itself a way to something big

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JONNY STEINBERG: SA could grant itself a way to something big 🔒

BL PREMIUMAmong the sources of resistance to universal basic income is the sense that it would constitute a terrible defeat, a last resort after everything else has failed. Monthly payments to all, according to this view, would be like setting up a drip to feed a comatose patient. It keeps her alive, which is good, but it is no substitute for curing her so that she can sit up and smile and eat with a knife and fork.

I think that is exactly the wrong way to understand universal basic income. Places in SA that are dying, places strangled by the politics of patronage, would come to life were everyone to be paid a decent monthly cheque...A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily.

 

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