Basic income’s appeal today has roots in 18th-century England, and is a way to compensate people for a common good taken for private gain, Research Assistant Professor of the Humanities Will Glovinsky explains in The Conversation US. Read here: tinyurl.com/4bwdat39
Today’s basic income proponents say cash payments would be good for everyone. In the 1790s, the idea’s inventor argued something else: It was owed to everyone.
