Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 1774-1776

For Tim Button, a basic income has meant options.

The former security guard can now make choices — to buy healthier food, to pay to take transit, to meet a friend for coffee — since he enrolled in a provincial pilot project last October.

In the past, the 58-year-old, who lives in a rented room, said he would sometimes walk 20 blocks to eat one meal a day at a shelter.

"It gives me a lot more freedom," Button said.

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Button is one of 1,000 local participants in a three-year, basic income pilot project launched by the province in April 2017.

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People are able to eat healthier, increase their social interaction and begin to be able to think about ways to improve their lives, whether that's by going back to school or boosting skills in another way, he said....

"I think the most profound impact of basic income has really been around restoring a sense of dignity," said Cooper.

Hamilton boosts a basic income.... and a 'sense of dignity' 

Natalie Paddon 

The Hamilton Spectator

 

Do you like your job? Maybe you do, but I think you should reevaluate. At the very least, I think you should be uncomfortable with the fact that you live in a system that compels you to have a job, particularly if that job is neither necessary for your own well-being nor the well-being of others. Thanks to advances in robotics and AI, we may be close to building a society in which work, as we currently know it, is no longer necessary for either of these things. Far from being a cause for concern, this is something we should welcome. The work ethic is a cultural virus, something that has infected our minds and our institutions. We need to be inoculated.

Why You Should Hate Your Job 

John Danaher

As an elephant handler for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Lauren Ramsay used to spend her time herding four-ton pachyderms. Now she serves the dinner crowd at a Chicago wine bar. The elephants were easier. “Elephants definitely listen better and aren’t as messy as people when they eat,” she says.
What’s A Clown to Do After the Circus? One Is Running for Congress
By John Clarke
The Wall Street Journal