{"id":12395,"date":"2020-04-07T13:40:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T12:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=12395"},"modified":"2020-04-07T13:40:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T12:40:54","slug":"lauren-ware-universal-basic-income-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/04\/07\/lauren-ware-universal-basic-income-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Ware on the impact of Universal Basic Income in a pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Lauren Ware, Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy<\/a> at the University of Kent, recently appeared on BBC Radio Kent<\/a> to discuss the cross-party suggestion that the UK introduce a Universal Basic Income (UBI) of about \u00a31000 a month regardless of an individual’s situation.<\/p>\n

Lauren discusses this topic in relation to her research on the philosophy of emotions, and comments on how in both the arguments for and against UBI; both sides talk about fear, with some arguing that it would ease social anxieties and contribute to a more mentally healthy society, and others saying that the fear of social pressure is what drives them to ‘get off the couch’.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t really have a lot of sympathy for that view point,\u201d Lauren states in response to the latter argument, \u201cthat’s not how we are as humans. Eventually, people would get bored. I just don’t think that when people are left to our own devices, people would want to be lazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lauren was also excited to hear Labour MP Rebecca Long Bailey cite the introduction of UBI as a possible solution to the economic problems presented by the Coronavirus situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryday we talk about who to blame, what are we angry at, what are we afraid of, so it’s really interesting how the philosophy of emotion plays a role in this pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more about the proposal of UBI by UK politicians<\/a> and Lauren’s own article on the question ‘Does fear drive economic progress?’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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