Coronavirus update: A world basic income is needed urgently to prevent starvation
Latest: Starting amount for world basic income raised to $30 per person per month
Our world is wealthy, but much of that wealth is owned by just a few people, while some people have almost nothing. To make a better, happier world, we need to find ways to share wealth more fairly.
One way that wealth can be shared out is by a government or organisation collecting money through taxes, levies or fees, and then giving a share of that money unconditionally to everyone, to spend as they see fit. This is called a ‘basic income’. If this money is gathered at the international level, and then shared out among every person in the world, this would be a ‘world basic income’.
This organisation, World Basic Income, is campaigning for the introduction of a scheme like this. We believe that every person in the world has a right to life, and that providing us all with a regular basic income is a good way to help secure this right. We believe that a world basic income is just and fair, that it could help to end poverty, and that it would ease many of the social, economic and political problems that we face.
One way that wealth can be shared out is by a government or organisation collecting money through taxes, levies or fees, and then giving a share of that money unconditionally to everyone, to spend as they see fit. This is called a ‘basic income’. If this money is gathered at the international level, and then shared out among every person in the world, this would be a ‘world basic income’.
This organisation, World Basic Income, is campaigning for the introduction of a scheme like this. We believe that every person in the world has a right to life, and that providing us all with a regular basic income is a good way to help secure this right. We believe that a world basic income is just and fair, that it could help to end poverty, and that it would ease many of the social, economic and political problems that we face.
