The city has paired up with the local university to establish whether the concept of 'basic income' can work in real life, and plans to begin the experiment at the end of the summer holidays.
Basic income is a universal, unconditional form of payment to individuals, which covers their living costs. The concept is to allow people to choose to work more flexible hours in a less regimented society, allowing more time for care, volunteering and study.
University College Utrecht has paired with the city to place people on welfare on a living income, to see if a system of welfare without requirements will be successful.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dutch-city-of-utrecht-to-experiment-with-a-universal-unconditional-income-10345595.html
There is no real reason such a thing could not be implemented globally, but don't hold your breath.
The underlying cause for racism in America and neocolonialism in the world is the greed of the oligarchs, bankgangsters, corporations, and their collaborators in the one percent. Unless and until the 99 percent rise up and implement the changes we want, racism and poverty will continue.
Most of us think the way we were indoctrinated to think by the rulers of the US and the educational system they created. And they persuaded us to believe that the system of slavery and control devised by The Founders was just and superior to any other way of living.
The American way of life can be summarized with the following statement:
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
Frédéric Bastiat
That (in a nutshell) is how the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence came to be.
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