Guy Standing quotes - page 2

Every progressive movement has been built on the anger, needs, and aspirations of the emerging major class. (Guy Standing)
Corporations and financiers have used their growing influence to induce governments and international organizations to construct a global framework of institutions and regulations that enable elites to maximize their rental income. View quote
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Growth in village economies is often ignored. It should not be. View quote
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The claim that if people had a basic income they would become lazy is prejudiced and has been refuted many times in many places. View quote
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Politicians should reflect on the well-documented fact that fearful, insecure people lose their sense of tolerance and altruism. View quote
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Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts. View quote
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A multi-tier social protection system must be based on a modest basic income so as to enable the precariat to build lives involving a balance of different types of work, not just labour in jobs. View quote
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The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights - cultural, civil, social, economic, and political. View quote
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Using political power, the elite can induce local authorities to facilitate enclosure and privatisation of land, water, and other hitherto public amenities. And they can pressurise public administrations to cut taxes, reducing financial resources for maintaining the remaining commons. View quote
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We are in an era of chronic insecurity and growing inequalities. In that context, we need to have new mechanisms for income distribution which give people a sense of security. View quote
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Twentieth-century welfare state capitalism was historically unique in that national income was split between wages and profits, labour and capital. (Guy Standing)
People in the precariat rely very heavily on money wages. View quote
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Retraining for the precariat is stressful and demoralising; often, they learn new tricks only to find them obsolescent or unwanted. View quote
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The precariat can be divided into three further groups - atavists, who look back to a lost past; nostalgics, who look forlornly for a present, a home; and progressives, who look for a lost future. View quote
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Workfare will merely accentuate the growth of the low-paying, insecure labour market. View quote
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If you had a basic income, it would mean that everybody would have a base on top of which their earned income would be taxed at the standard rate of tax. That would increase the incentive to take low-wage jobs. View quote
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The precariat is today's mass class, which is both dangerous, in rejecting old political party agendas, and transformative, in wanting to become strong enough to be able to abolish itself, to abolish the conditions of insecurity and inequality that define it. View quote
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Public social services, infrastructural policies, and so on are vital. But a basic income should be part of a package of reforms. View quote
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If you're healthier, you tend to have a lower demand for health services. View quote
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The precariat faces chronic uncertainty about what to do, about what incomes to expect, about state benefits that might be their due, about their relationships, their homes, and about the occupations they can realistically expect. View quote
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If I care for an elderly relative without payment, it is not work, is not counted in national income, and, as it is not labour, is not counted as work. Should my neighbour pay me to do precisely the same tasks, it would contribute to economic growth. (Guy Standing)
The evidence shows if you give people security, they become better people. They develop their talents. They become better citizens. View quote
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Many low-income people in the U.S.A. charged with a crime opt to plead guilty to a lesser offence because they cannot afford to go to trial. View quote
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Millions of people in many so-called democratic countries have lost the right to vote, or never obtain it. And millions clearly feel that the political mainstream is not articulating a vocabulary or policies oriented to their needs and aspirations. View quote
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If schooling becomes little more than preparation for the job market and consumption, it cannot produce socially responsible and altruistic citizens. View quote
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