[OccupySheffield] Age of Anger / Tom Paine's Idea

[Mark Barrett]

1) GREAT ANALYSIS BY PANKAJ MISHRA
age of anger
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fll1l

2) TAX THE LAND AND PAY EVERYONE AN INCOME FROM THE PROCEEDS
A good summary of all the arguments for and against Universal Basic Income,
including its root, as an idea:
'... basic income is a big idea with a pedigree. It owes its roots to
Thomas Paine, the 18th-century radical, who in 1797 proposed paying all
21-year-olds a £15 grant funded through a tax on landowners. Since then it
has captured the imagination of many a philosopher, but until the past
couple of years never gained much political traction beyond the fringes.'
[Or, as the leader of the Diggers put it 'The Earth is a Common Treasury
for All' or, better still Psalms 24: 'The Earth is the Lord's, and the
Fullness Thereof']
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/19/basic-income-finland-low-wages-fewer-jobs?CMP=share_btn_fb
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