{"id":1459,"date":"2019-02-26T20:20:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2019-02-26T20:21:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:21:59","slug":"basic-income-and-or-free-subsistence-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/26\/basic-income-and-or-free-subsistence-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Income and\/or Free Subsistence Land?"},"content":{"rendered":"\nIn the following videos, Rutger Bregman argues for a Universal Basic Income. This idea was first proposed by Bertrand Russell in his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/690\/690-h\/690-h.htm\">Proposed Roads to Freedom<\/a>, 1918, as a universal &#8220;vagabond wage.&#8221;  A similar idea was also suggested by Milton Friedman in <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/friedman-milton-capitalism-and-freedom\/page\/n1\">Capitalism and Freedom<\/a>, 1962, as a &#8220;negative income tax.&#8221;\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ydKcaIE6O1k\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3x2vh5eMjGI\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5r3kpyp0qs0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the following videos, Rutger Bregman argues for a Universal Basic Income. This idea was first proposed by Bertrand Russell in his book Proposed Roads to Freedom, 1918, as a universal &#8220;vagabond wage.&#8221; A similar idea was also suggested by Milton Friedman in Capitalism and Freedom, 1962, as a &#8220;negative income tax.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit-institutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}