Secondo io9 quella del reddito minimo garantito è l’unica proposta ragionevole per bilanciare gli squilibri creati dall’automatizzazione del lavoro. I sostenitori illustri ci sono, è il momento di mettere in campo questa soluzione.

As a concept, a basic income guarantee (BIG) has been bantered around for quite some time now. As early as 1795, American revolutionary Thomas Paine called for a Citizen’s Dividend to all U.S. citizens for “loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property.” Even Napoleon Bonaparte agreed that “man is entitled by birthright to a share of the Earth’s produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.”

In his 1967 speech, “Where Do We Go From Here,” Martin Luther King Jr. said: “I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective — the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.”

The idea has also been supported by the esteemed economists Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, the latter of whom advocated for a minimum guaranteed income via a “negative income tax.”