Guy Standing

The precariat can be divided into three further groups - atavists, who look back to a lost past; nostalgics, who look forlornly for a present, a home; and progressives, who look for a lost future. ”

If schooling becomes little more than preparation for the job market and consumption, it cannot produce socially responsible and altruistic citizens. ”

The claim that if people had a basic income they would become lazy is prejudiced and has been refuted many times in many places. ”

Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity. ”

A primary justification for a basic income is social justice. ”

The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights - cultural, civil, social, economic, and political. ”

The income distribution system constructed in the 20th century has broken down, and it will not come back. ”

A democratically governed national fracking fund should be set up, perhaps similar to what Norway and Alaska have. Areas of drilling should be rented to companies through public tender, with or without subsidies, and a rising share of profits beyond a negotiated upper limit should be deposited in the national capital fund. ”

The precariat is today's mass class, which is both dangerous, in rejecting old political party agendas, and transformative, in wanting to become strong enough to be able to abolish itself, to abolish the conditions of insecurity and inequality that define it. ”

Nobody should be allowed to fund political parties unless they pay at least 30% tax on all income above the median wage. If that rule applied, the Tory party would be bankrupted overnight. ”