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UBI could increase human well-being and help save the planet

Author:
Joseph Cederwall

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Year of publication:
2017

Publishers:
Community Scoop

Language:
English

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Introduction: Anthropologist Jason Hickel believes basic income could be part of the solution to this problem of the pervasiveness of the growth mentality. He presents UBI as forming part of a strategy of “planned de-growth,” which he believes will “increase human well-being and happiness while reducing our economic footprint.”

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