A large percentage of the world's population lives ..... poverty

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As a matter of fact a large percentage of seemingly ‘rich’ countries live in poverty too. Here is current tweet by Dr Jason Hickel on the subject:

*28% of all new income from global GDP growth over the past 40 years has gone to the richest 1% (all millionaires). *

In other words, nearly one third of the labour we’ve rendered, the resources we’ve extracted, the CO2 we’ve emitted has been done to make rich people richer.

UBI and combination with UBS could be the solution to lots of problems, not just poverty

In the following article @Sumejja raises a number of very interesting questions and I would like to hear your opinion on them, @Memo34 She says that a universal basic income in combination with universal basic services will help alleviate poverty and create more stability and security in the process. I’d like to add that both UBI as well as UBS are already possible today and all it really takes to implement both instruments is the political will. It’s a fact that we are already living in ‘an ec…