Basic income

There's a lot of discussion and information. Great. This will continue. - But what else can we do? Which other means can help us, to turn the situation in our direction. Any ideas?

We should do a search run.

We can make this subject to our area of research, the next years. - And when one country starts with Universal Basic Income (UBI), that's great.

Some examples and thoughts on “new means” in basic income work.

We need online activism

This is not only your private work for this idea. As an author, with your web pages and YouTube videos. It's in the first place cooperative work in the internet. People connect over the borders of countries, online, and network together for their common aims. - This is not the same like being member of organizations. Organizations and institutions are dinosaurs. They are tools of the “old world”. - When you enter those groups, for example a party, you will be exhausted, but never reach any aim, you intended. Or you must be sly, to misuse others, to have a profit for your lobby group.

But basic income promoter will go a better way. The internet gives you all the tools you need, to build a countable and visible crowd. - For basic income, transparency is very important. To see, how many people support this idea. But also, talk to institutions and organizations, as part of online activism.

Network

What's the difference to institutions? In a network you always have single people, with their own opinion, judge and decision. But they decide to connect with others for a special purpose. Let's say, make basic income become real. - For this purpose, they combine their strength, skills, energy and ideas in campaigns and other activism.

This is that, what we need in the next years.

As an example I will mention the new campaign of Switzerland initiative:

http://generation-grundeinkommen.ch/de (No longer accessible)

I don't know, if this is only a plugin for Wordpress, but whatever it is, it's an easy access for people to show their positive attitude to the basic income idea. In this case the aim is to get as much as possible people become involved. So, the only number of persons who declare their (positive) opinion to basic income would be impressive.

There are a lot more possibilities, how we can use 'online actvism'. We should start immediately.

What are your ideas on this?