Basic Income: delight for all or Chimera? – Times Online

Yes

Recently ran on TV the Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave. It is about a New York African American who was kidnapped and enslaved. And the longer you watch his life in the cotton fields of the southern states, the more one wonders why the slaves are there really forced incessantly with the whip to work? The answer is: If the motivation to work is equal to zero, then the maximum threat must be ascended: pain, humiliation, death.

Now slavery is abolished in our latitudes, but a way of thinking underlying it has survived well: Without pressure, without threats and without fear, people do not work properly.

Or at least the other people.

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For the means at the bottom that: Whoever does not work, impoverished and humiliating bureaucratic procedure is suspended on top of that. But the logic is true that fear motivated in a weaker form also in the better work. Repressive motivation infested still large parts of our work. They destroyed more real desire to work, as it produces to grim motivation.

But there is a way to bring these inefficient, inhumane idea to disappear: the basic income – the social contract against the anxiety at work.

But is that even possible? Well, we managed to eliminate the fear in education (in any case as a legitimate means), then why not at work?

But would let then not many clear? Certainly they would, but they do even today, they whistle to the degradation and create a world of cultured misery, they just go to in spite of threats – including their children.

But would you still find people who do the shit work? Well, it would of course be much more likely dare inge imagination as abolishing shit work or makes more bearable. Especially: Who, for example 1400 Euros gets from the state in the month, which would have already offer real money, so he does the jobs that no one wants.

And that would rightly so. The lowest work would need to be better paid. The basic income would bring the small white plate of Klofrau to disappear, and we would instead pay with twice as much for peeing. For that alone it would have been worth it.

And how expensive is that all? Counter-question: Is there something more valuable than the absence of fear?

BERND ULRICH

life in the future – a utopia of Götz Werner: basic income for all Götz Werner, founder of DM drugstore chain, dreams of a world without existence hardships through the unconditional basic income.