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

[daddyans]

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

[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.

[hamechonit]

@bluensunshine The backlash I hear when speaking about basic income, equal labor, or equal money is that it is a form of communism. What I have learned about communism is that it is a system where everybody gets an equal wage and all people live in poverty. There are hundreds of people lined up at a a food pantry for a loaf of bread or a few onions while the government leaders live in fancy houses and build enormous pet projects to suit their own idealisms. That sounds more like our own system.

[wakeyskate]

@Naturyl this really isn't a religious issue, rather a social one and economic one. The more you bring your opinionated views into it, the more you become part of the problem.

[AndreaRossouw1]

Common Sense: most of the world problems are caused due to people trying to survive - if we establish and equal money - equal labour system - it will take out the point of survival and bring in equal life - equal expression

[henkeliduu]

We've got all the tools we need; the technology has been available to us for quite some time now. The worker is no longer needed when we've got more advanced robots and machines, I think it's pure lunacy to draw the conclusion that the no-longer-workers need to either starve or invent some new way to make money, resulting in things like spam mails and telemarketing companies that does no good to anyone in the long run