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Initiative for Basic Income, Switzerland presents

Initiative for Basic Income, Switzerland presents. A short story about U nconditional Basic Income. Added value through Basic Income. Value. The coal under the ground and the apple on the tree have no value.

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Initiative for Basic Income, Switzerland presents

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  1. Initiative for Basic Income, Switzerlandpresents A short story aboutUnconditionalBasic Income

  2. Added value through Basic Income

  3. Value The coal under the ground and the apple on the tree have no value. The moment I approach the apple and bite into it, a value is attached to it

  4. Added value If I do not eat the apple, but take it to the market, value is added to it. Added value is generated through work I provide for others.

  5. Added value is that which I do not eat myself!

  6. Work and Income If I eat the apple directly from the tree, I don’t need income. I only need income to plant apple trees for others, or to pick and process apples.

  7. …while doing this I cannot stand under the tree eating apples. While doing this I cannot provide myself with apples, because I am working to provide others. For this I have to be provided by others. For…

  8. Money Money allows me to buy things others produce. If they don’t produce, money has no value. Without others who produce there is nothing to buy. I can only buy what producers don’t consume, and have made available for others.

  9. Freedom Income frees me from the need to provide for me. I am freed, indeed, through others who produce and provide me with goods. The garden of subsistence is gone – we no longer provide for ourselves.

  10. Where the division of labour prevails one does not provide for oneself that’s why everybody should be provided with a basic income!

  11. More about Added Value through a Basic Income

  12. Initiative Grundeinkommen(Initiative for Unconditional Basic Income) Enno Schmidt and Daniel Häni

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