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Guy Standing
Guy Standing
English Actor
Born: Sep 1, 1873
Died: Feb 24, 1937
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Nobody should be allowed to fund political parties unless they pay at least 30% tax on all income above the median wage. If that rule applied, the Tory party would be bankrupted overnight. Guy Standing
Political Party Pay Unless Rule Would Would-Be Tory Above Allowed Nobody Parties Least Wage Overnight Political Parties Tax Should Fund Income Median Applied
Every time a government minister or spokesman lauds Magna Carta, let us boo or hiss. Shame them. And let us celebrate what it really means to our history: the ability of an emerging class to make demands against the state for new liberties and rights. Guy Standing
Government Time History Class Rights Celebrate Every Boo Every Time State Our Liberties Minister Ability Magna Emerging Shame Spokesman Demands New Make Against Them Us Really Means Let Us
The primary value of a basic income would be its emancipatory effect. Guy Standing
Value Would Would-Be Primary Effect Income Basic
The precariat is today's mass class, which is both dangerous, in rejecting old political party agendas, and transformative, in wanting to become strong enough to be able to abolish itself, to abolish the conditions of insecurity and inequality that define it. Guy Standing
Today Class Dangerous Strong Political Old Insecurity Party Become Enough Define Able Abolish Both Mass Inequality Conditions Itself Political Party Wanting Transformative Which Agendas Rejecting
Politicians seem desperate to appeal to their respective versions of the so called 'middle class,' unable to empathise with the precariat and eager to dream up fresh and tougher sanctions against society's wounded. Guy Standing
Class Desperate Politicians Society Respective Unable Dream Wounded Seem Tougher Fresh Versions Up Middle So-Called Middle Class Against Sanctions Appeal Eager
We need a new model of social protection. Let us accept that jobs are not the magic solution - and that in a globalised market, job guarantees are a false promise. Let us accept flexible labour, too. But in return, let us have a society in which everybody has a right to basic security and a more equal access to other insurance-based schemes. Guy Standing
Protection Job Society Too Other Everybody Market Jobs Promise Security Solution Magic More Schemes New Equal Return Accept Access False Model Labour Which Social Us Flexible Let Us Right Basic Need Guarantees
A multi-tier social protection system must be based on a modest basic income so as to enable the precariat to build lives involving a balance of different types of work, not just labour in jobs. Guy Standing
Work Balance Protection Build Types System Jobs Must Involving Enable Labour Just Different Social Modest Different Types Income Based Lives Basic
Since all political parties blame the others for the economic mess, it is unfair to attribute unemployment to individual behaviour. Guy Standing
Blame Political Unfair Others Economic Individual Since Parties Mess Attribute Political Parties Unemployment Behaviour
Workfare will merely accentuate the growth of the low-paying, insecure labour market. Guy Standing
Will Market Insecure Merely Accentuate Labour Growth
Sanctions and workfare make it easier for employers to impose insecure practices on desperate people. Guy Standing
People Desperate Easier Insecure Employers Make Practices Impose Sanctions
Retraining for the precariat is stressful and demoralising; often, they learn new tricks only to find them obsolescent or unwanted. Guy Standing
Unwanted Tricks Find Only New Learn Often Them Stressful
What we need is a slow time movement to gain control over time and an overhaul of work statistics to give a better perspective on all the work being done and how much of it is undesirable, unnecessary, and demeaning. Guy Standing
Work Time Better Perspective Slow Control Unnecessary Statistics Give Over Demeaning How How Much Undesirable Done Movement Being Gain Being Done Much Need
Every progressive movement has been built on the anger, needs, and aspirations of the emerging major class. Guy Standing
Needs Class Anger Every Progressive Has-Been Emerging Major Built Been Movement Aspirations
Although the precariat does not consist simply of victims, since many in it challenge their parents' labouring ethic, its growth has been accelerated by the neoliberalism of globalisation, which put faith in labour market flexibility, the commodification of everything, and the restructuring of social protection. Guy Standing
Faith Protection Challenge Parents Market Everything Consist Has-Been Restructuring Put Simply Since Accelerate Globalisation Although Does Been Labour Labouring Which Victims Social Ethic Flexibility Many Growth
Many in the precariat know they have to spend considerable time just waiting for opportunities to arise. Guy Standing
Time Waiting Opportunities Considerable Spend Arise Know Just Many
In the old 20th-century income distribution system, the shares of income going to capital, mainly in profits, and labor, in wages and non-wage benefits, were roughly stable. But that system is no more. Guy Standing
Benefits Old System Distribution More Shares Mainly Wages Were Labor Going Stable Capital Roughly Income Profits
What we can say with confidence is that the technological revolution is worsening inequality, due mostly to mechanisms that limit free markets. It is also bringing about disruptive change that is intensifying insecurity and may indeed lead to large-scale labor displacement. Guy Standing
Confidence Change Insecurity Free Revolution Indeed Say Markets About Free Markets Lead Also Mostly Limit Inequality Due Labor May Displacement Mechanisms Large-Scale Technological Bringing Disruptive
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