Among ohters, in Article 25 of the universal declaration of human rights it says:

• (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

In almost any constitution of almost all nations the people are awarded more and more far reaching rights. They are called RIGHTS!

But, in most cases, they are only on paper!

An Unconditional Basic Income would finally grant to the people, what is rightfully theirs!

We tend to value gainful employment above all else. He, who is not employed, has little value and without income from any other sources, will be considered a parasite to society.

As there is so much pressure (social and financial) to take up (any) gainful employment, more often than not, the employment we have is not what we appreciate to do.

This is where hobbies come in. Our hobby is the work that we like to do. It’s what should be our profession and would make us passionate about our employment.

When we see someone working very hard, say a lumberjack cutting down trees with a hand saw or an axe, we’d laugh and think that the man is just rather doing his body-building.  Any chainsaw and esp. tree felling machines are so much more effective.

A 100 years ago this was still considered serious, important and definitely hard work.

When we see someone working out maths calculations in his head or on paper, we’ll laugh and think this must be for school. Any cheap calculator or even computer is so much faster and always accurate.

50 years ago there were no calculators or computers and this person was a valued, hard working expert.

At their times people were hard workers doing these things. Now all this work is still done, but there is no hard work involved any more.

It goes on like this… most things that meant “hard working” to us are done by machines and computers. Are we “lazy” because of this? Is being “lazy” bad or good from this perspective?

For sure, what is presently considered “hard work”, will become ridiculous tomorrow.

Look at any modern factory in a developed country and see the robots, supply systems and related sophisticated soft- and hardware. Compare this to any poor, developing state: Not in a 100 years will this change, the way things are.

So people without any perspective are risking their lives to come to Europe, coming through unbelievable hardship to a very insecure future.

The best solution to avoid this is to finance a global unconditional basic income.