UBI as a Tool for Solidarity: A Response to Richard Todd Stafford

Abstract

I am examining UBI in order to imagine a more egalitarian democracy under capitalism through the redistribution of national wealth that all labor, paid and unpaid, create. I maintain that the redistribution of capital through a UBI cannot be completely dismissed; however, the key would be to remain dedicated to emboldening individual economic agency through bottom-up initiatives while battling for infrastructural changes in a governmental, top-down fashion.

Keywords

• agency
• labor
• redistribution
• universal basic income