Basic
Income
Guarantee

Thesis of speech

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I would define the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) as ideology and practice of an existential humanism, which means the economic help of people because of the fact of their existence. But how does it influence the personality? Does BIG free or – to the contrary, enslave people? The answer to this question lies on the hand: ripe personalities a Basic Income will free; people, who are still developing, it takes the freedom.

Migration and global social security systems

To view  a Basic Income on the level of a national state brings the problem, that this state acts like a magnet for people, who live in a poorer situation and who have no chance to get out of their situation. But many states waste a lot of money to secure their borders against the mass of immigrants.

While it is discussed if a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) should be introduced in rich post-industrial countries, BIG would be an effective way to fight against poverty and hunger in the Third world:

Begin of the 16th century

• Aid for the poor was the privilege of the church in Europe
• Preliminary stages of social benefits
• 1516 Thomas More: „Utopia“
• 1526 Juan Luis Vives: De Subventione Pauperum (On the Assistance to the Poor)