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Guy Standing
Guy Standing
English Actor
Born: Sep 1, 1873
Died: Feb 24, 1937
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The precariatised mind is one without anchors, flitting from subject to subject, in the extreme suffering from attention deficit disorder. But it is also nomadic in its dealings with other people. Guy Standing
Suffering People Mind Other Deficit Extreme Anchors Attention Attention Deficit Nomadic Also Without Subject Disorder Flitting
Globalisation, technological change, and the move to flexible labour markets has channelled more and more income to rentiers - those owning financial, physical, or so-called intellectual property - while real wages stagnate. Guy Standing
Property Change Financial Markets Those Physical More More And More Globalisation Real Wages Intellectual Intellectual Property Labour Move Owning So-Called While Flexible Income Technological
A rich and diverse commons lowers the cost of living for those who use it. And throughout history, it has been those on low incomes who gain most from the commons. Guy Standing
History Rich Living Those Has-Been Cost Diverse Throughout Most Been Gain Commons Low Use Who Incomes
In 1936, John Maynard Keynes predicted the 'euthanasia of the rentier' before the end of the 20th century. It did not happen. Guy Standing
Before John End Did Happen Predicted Century Euthanasia
Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity. Guy Standing
Best Great Equality Liberty Collective Action Way Solidarity Best Way Trinity Remains Towards March
People in the precariat find themselves in the situation where the level of their education and qualifications is almost always higher than the sort of labour that they're going to be able to obtain. Guy Standing
Education People Situation Find Able Higher Almost Qualifications Obtain Sort Always Than Labour Going Where Themselves Level
If you're healthier, you tend to have a lower demand for health services. Guy Standing
Health You Tend Demand Health Services Healthier Lower Services
Across Europe, not just in the U.K., the old Beveridge and Bismarckian variants of the welfare state have been dismantled. In their place has been erected a mish-mash of means-tested, behaviour-tested social assistance, with a growing tendency to force young unemployed into workfare schemes, which are helping to depress real wages. Guy Standing
Welfare Old Young State Has-Been Tendency Schemes Welfare State Force Real Wages Been Unemployed Just Place Which Depress Social Across Europe Helping Growing Assistance
Twentieth-century welfare state capitalism was historically unique in that national income was split between wages and profits, labour and capital. Guy Standing
Capitalism Welfare National State Split Between Welfare State Wages Historically Labour Capital Unique Income Profits
If I care for an elderly relative without payment, it is not work, is not counted in national income, and, as it is not labour, is not counted as work. Should my neighbour pay me to do precisely the same tasks, it would contribute to economic growth. Guy Standing
Work Me Care National Pay Relative Neighbour Would Economic Economic Growth Counted Without Contribute Labour Tasks Same Precisely Elderly Should Payment Income Growth
Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts. Guy Standing
Work Economics Think Only Counts How Labour Modern Growth Presents
The income distribution system constructed in the 20th century has broken down, and it will not come back. Guy Standing
Broken Will Down Back System Distribution Constructed Come Century Income
People want to work, but they don't want to necessarily want to do labour. Guy Standing
Work People Labour Want Necessarily
The evidence shows if you give people security, they become better people. They develop their talents. They become better citizens. Guy Standing
You People Better Become Evidence Security Citizens Give Develop Talents Shows
We are in an era of chronic insecurity and growing inequalities. In that context, we need to have new mechanisms for income distribution which give people a sense of security. Guy Standing
People Insecurity Sense Chronic Security Distribution Give New Inequalities Context Era Which Mechanisms Growing Income Need
Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps. Guy Standing
Benefits Poverty Incredible Feature Impose Huge Traps
I don't see basic income as a panacea, but we must have a new income distribution system. The old one has broken down irretrievably. Guy Standing
Broken Old Down System Must Distribution See New Old One Income Basic Panacea
The precariat has been losing cultural rights in that those in it feel they cannot and do not belong to any community that gives them secure identity or a sense of solidarity and reciprocity, of mutual support. Guy Standing
Rights Losing Sense Community Those Solidarity Secure Has-Been Mutual Gives Support Feel Identity Been Cultural Any Cannot Them Belong
Millions of people in many so-called democratic countries have lost the right to vote, or never obtain it. And millions clearly feel that the political mainstream is not articulating a vocabulary or policies oriented to their needs and aspirations. Guy Standing
Needs Vote People Political Lost Vocabulary Never Mainstream Feel Clearly Countries Obtain Democratic Policies Articulating So-Called Aspirations Oriented Many Right Millions Millions Of People
Most existing national capital funds have been built up from royalties from oil and other minerals. They need not be limited that way. Most are anything but democratic. That could be changed. Guy Standing
National Changed Other Way Minerals Could Most Democratic Limited Built Been Existing Up Oil Anything Capital Funds Royalties Need
A primary justification for a basic income is social justice. Guy Standing
Justice Primary Justification Social Social Justice Income Basic
The precariat can be divided into three further groups - atavists, who look back to a lost past; nostalgics, who look forlornly for a present, a home; and progressives, who look for a lost future. Guy Standing
Future Home Three Lost Past Progressives Back Further Divided Look Who Groups Present
In the interests of competitiveness in a globalizing world economy, governments of all complexions introduced labour-market reforms that promoted flexibility but accentuated the precariat's insecurities. Guy Standing
World Insecurities Introduced Promoted Economy Governments Reforms Interests Flexibility World Economy Competitiveness
The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights - cultural, civil, social, economic, and political. Guy Standing
History Class Rights Political Losing First Civil Economic First Class Cultural Social Acquired
The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing. Guy Standing
Prayer Charity Plead Latin Must Degrading Favours Obtain Authority Ask Root Show Figures
Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare. Guy Standing
Benefits Overcome Will Insecurity Chronic Minimum Minimum Wage Laws Wage Tax Credits
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