Name: 【TEDx】Discussing the merits of Unconditional Basic Income | Enno Schmidt | TEDxBasel
Uploaded: 2017-03-25T20:43:03.000Z
Duration: 11 min 48 s
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Modal verbs - A2

can you briefly tell us what basic income is?

ES A basic income is the base of income for the basic needs,

must not be strictly bounded to some conditions;

on what you are doing, how much you are earning,

its not dependent on if you are working or not,

employed or not employed, living alone or living in the community.

It's just focused on the individual, focused on the human being,

And that, I guess, is a necessary basis for the challenges of work we have,

and the challenges in the world we live in now.

HF: You've been very successful with the media hype,

you just recently set the Guinness Book World Record for the largest poster,

you dropped 400,000 Swiss francs in the square in Bern.

E.S.: It' was eight million, to represent 8 million residents in Switzerland,

and it was to show that the money is there.

it's about the unconditional, it's about abolishing ideologies,

and to make a carpet for the people, a carpet for life,

[a symbol] that we can all [afford to] spend up to this amount.

H.F.: My favorite picture from that is the man vacuuming up the money

it had to come back to the National Bank.

H.F.: Do you have any figures for us about how many people are for it?

Everybody is for it, in the whole world. But they don't know it yet.

That is really a question, and we also wanted to know that,

and so we did a survey, last December in Switzerland.

There are many [surveys] in other countries, and many pilot projects:

they don't stand in their factory or in their company,

So at least ten percent of the people will quit the job,

and that does not mean they won't work oo anything.

And all the rest, 90 percent, want to continue working.

will I stop working if my basic needs are taken care of?

So, not you yourself, but it's always the others.

More than 50 percent there said they want to have more time

for the children, for families, for social things.

50 percent of the people said they want to have more time to study.

they want to have more time for free working, voluntary work.

So there's a demand by everybody to do something good for others,

to have a responsibility, to do something good for others.

And 13 percent said they want to change their job.

22 percent said, they wanted to become a freelancer, self-employed.

H.F: You mentioned jobs that people don't want to do.

What does this mean for people doing the dirty work?

You see, freedom is not always about being able to do what you want

but [also being able to] know what you really don't want to do.

You cannot be forced to do anything or everything for money,

And the question, who cleans the toilets or who would do this work

what especially we both don't want to do.

it's an old thought of the time of slavery,

the others have to do the work I don't want to do but it has to be done.

If this work is necessary and its valuable,

creates a huge incentive to create better work conditions,

more appreciation, more equal "eye-level".

And it's not so easily not to listen to the other,

not to be aware, not to care to the others.

and that means a lot by better work conditions

and, as I say at least, why not pay this better?

But - everybody I've asked, they all love the idea,

but then they don't know how it's going to work.

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【TEDx】Discussing the merits of Unconditional Basic Income | Enno Schmidt | TEDxBasel

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