Basic Income - Sowing the seeds, ensuring the harvest
Sally Lerner, Faculty of
Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo,
Ontario, Canada
Keynote address
"I believe a politically sustainable BI must be embedded in a certain kind of societal soil, a broad kind of social contract.  I want to talk about how to create public support for a universal basic income and how to provide the societal supports that ensure positive outcomes."
  "While wealth continues to be created, there is less need for people's labour in manufacturing and many services, and when human labour is needed, increasingly it can be found in low-wage countries. 

and development, and infrastructure over many decades.  Social investment that has made possible the current technology-based prosperity.
"Universality and unconditionality need a great deal of public discussion to move beyond understandable knee-jerk reactions against them… Many people cannot envision, and others are afraid of, a life where they would be much freer to decide what they would do with their time… Most of us have come to depend on our working lives for both a livelihood and an identity.
"With a more varied daily life possible because of the BI, adults of all ages will gradually make engagement in useful and stimulating activities a family way of life."

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