In Switzerland the national referendum has not approved it. There was the idea to have a minimum guaranteed salary for all citizens and the 1:12 (a manager could not receive a salary which is more than 12 times than that of an employee of the same company) but both of them have not been approved by the population.
Switzerland is a very strange country... but what the population decides it's mandatory. Regards On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Seb35 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to speak on this list about the basic income. > > For a TL;DR about the concept, the idea of an (unconditionnal) basic > income is to give each citizen of a country a sum of money in order to > fullfill their basic needs: lodging, eat, be healthy. To give an idea of > the amount, one hears often 800-1000 € in France and I heard 2500 CHF in > Switzerland. If people want to earn more, their work income will be in > addition of this basic income. You can read more on the Wikipedia articles > ([1] and other languages). Be aware, this idea is as strange as Wikipedia > when one discovers it. > > As a Wikipmedian, I dream of such a basic income: it would empower the > people to edit the Wikimedia projects by giving them libre time (libre as > free speech). I don’t think Wikimedia itself should support this to avoid > being involved in politics, but probably many Wikipmedians could be > interested in this idea. > > For the European citizens, there is currently an official call (an ECI > [2]) to support this idea at the European level, see [3] ; this call ends > in one week (yes, the 200,000 signatures is a bit far of the million > signatures needed). In Switzerland, a popular legislative initiative > collected more than the 100,000 needed signatures in September 2013, and > this will lead to a nationwide referendum about the basic income there. > > Any thoughts about that? > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Citizens'_Initiative > [3] http://sign.basicincome2013.eu/ > > ~ Seb35 [^_^] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Tel: +41764821371 http://www.wikimedia.ch _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
