Archbishop Tutu on Basic Income

Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu speaks to the closing session of the Basic Income Earth Network's 11th International Congress in Cape Town, 4 November. The Nobel laureate, who chaired South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, applauds the work of the Basic Income campaign and makes an impassioned plea for social transfers to combat poverty and hunger. For more information on Basic Income, see the papers from the Congress, available at www.epri.org.za.

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[Naturyl]

Basic Income is the right thing to do. Oppose all greedy, indoctrinated social Darwinists who suggest that there are ANY conditions that should disqualify people from basic human rights and subsistence.

Everyone deserves food, clothing, shelter, and medicine. Period.

[DesteniProductions]

Equal money for all from birth to death is a compassionate way of life and must be investigated

[suavebone]

The problem with you ppl is you don't see ppl as INDIVIDUALS. you wanna do your world without money thing...GO THE FK AHEAD, stop implying that WE should all go down into your idealistic commie pit of misery. Shove your message up your arses.

[suavebone]

Fags...lol

[daddyans]

Peter Joseph exposes fractional reserve banking system in Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist Addendum. They're on youtube.

[bluensunshine]

@Naturyl @Naturyl and a planet with a viable environment including peaCe aND nO More waR and self and social actualisation !

[bluensunshine]

@Naturyl and peaCe aND nO More waR and self and social actualisation ! I'm with you !

[MegaContented]

He is an agent of UK. Remember Queen of UK is the head of the Church of England.

[dontblockmedk]

Money property system is ROOT problem.

1. people need food, water, energy, medicine, etc.

2. money systems require scarcity, so they will never create abundance of 1

3. sharing ALL resources and knowledge keeps small groups from controlling everyone

4. we have the resources and technology to provide EVERYTHING for the world now

5. automating the production distribution, frees up humanity to no longer be wage slaves to governments or corporations.

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[mikubuntu]

Mr Tutu, I wonder I wonder if you remember visiting our little town of Gamboa, in the old Panama Canal Zone... it must have been in the early/mid sixties, you visited the Catholic Church .. Mom told me about it, I don't remember it, and I think she went to the Church to see you, or maybe you also visited our little Gamboa Union Church.

[bluensunshine]

@hamechonit this might help:

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. The philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king, saw him.

Said Aristippus, If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.

Said Diogenes, Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to cultivate the king.

[bluensunshine]

@hamechonit realise when one realises that 'poverty' is a capitalist construct designed to set worker against worker (with a reserve of unemployed people to guarantee compliance by those 'fortunate' enough to be allowed to sell their labour) then it becomes easier to drop the urge to get more and more 'stuff' to perpetuate the concept of 'relative poverty.' I agree that the political class do nothing for the people but are completely in the pockets of capitalists and the military.