Basic Income for everyone - no questions asked

Dear fellow North-Americans

I like to help you.

I like to help you to lose your fear of global basic income

and the fear that it might lead straight to socialism.

Let me assure you - nobody ever got given a free salary in socialism.

I lived there. I grew up in the GDR - communist Germany called or East Germany.

There was no free ride. It was actually forbidden not to work.

Not working was asocial, one could go to jail for it.

This does not say anything about the quality, worth or effectiveness of jobs. But you probably no more about bullshit-jobs than we did back then.

Not only was it forbidden not to work - loudmouthed writers or intellectuals and even scientist got often send as punishment to work in factories or collective farms. No, I am not talking about Stalin’s Gulag. I was born 15 years after he died.

Hey, we even worked for capitalist companies as part of our high- school curriculum.

So, let your mind rest in peace. A Global Basic Income was not anything the Party-leaders ever planned nor did.

Like many Politicians, Ideologists or Religious leaders they were too afraid of idle hands and what ideas may sprout in rested, relaxed, creative brains.