Bertrand Russell on Basic income

“A certain small income, sufficient for necessaries, should be secured to all, whether they work or not.”

“Whatever merit there may be in the production of goods must be entirely derivative from the advantage to be obtained by consuming them.”

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“This sort of thing, is the result of regarding the virtue of hard work as an end in itself, rather than as a means to a state of affairs in which it is no longer needed.”

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