{"id":8367,"date":"2018-02-21T18:09:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T18:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8367"},"modified":"2019-03-13T18:00:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T18:00:41","slug":"lauren-ware-comments-on-universal-basic-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/02\/21\/lauren-ware-comments-on-universal-basic-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Ware comments on Universal Basic Income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/staff\/ware.html\">Dr Lauren Ware<\/a>, Lecturer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/index.html\">Department of Philosophy<\/a>, has made a recent contribution to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\">City A.M.<\/a>, London&#8217;s free daily business newspaper, following the Royal Society of Arts recent proposal to give all citizens under 55 a grant of \u00a310,000 as a form of Universal Basic Income, especially in the light of rising automation.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren argues: &#8216;We suffer from a culture of competitive overwork that is unpleasant, unhealthy, and unsustainable. Faced with rising automation, the state should consider a variety of options: one of them is a universal basic income\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If people know their income is secure, they\u2019re able to be more creative, to plan for the long term, and to allow time for caring for themselves and their loved ones.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, please visit the website here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/280982\/debate-rising-automation-royal-society-arts-right-its-time\">www.cityam.com\/280982\/debate-rising-automation-royal-society-arts-right-its-time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Lauren Ware, Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, has made a recent contribution to City A.M., London&#8217;s free daily business newspaper, following the Royal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/02\/21\/lauren-ware-comments-on-universal-basic-income\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":8375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135866,124,18570],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8367"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8377,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367\/revisions\/8377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}