Today in one the richest countries in the world 60% of households in poverty have people in
jobs inequality is the highest it has been for 100 years climate change threatens our
extinction and automation means millions are forced into a life of precarity. The solution?
Basic Income. Here Guy Standing the leading expert on the concept explains how to solve the
new eight evils of modern life and all for almost zero net cost. There is a better future one
that makes certain all citizens can share in the wealth of the modern economy. Far from being a
new idea Standing shows how the roots of basic income go back to the Charter of the Forest
one of two foundational documents of the state - the other sealed on the same day being the
Magna Carta. All citizens have a right to the wealth created by capitalism and all - left or
right rich or poor - can benefit from a dynamic and ecologically grounded economy created by
the guarantee of subsistence to all.
