Global Basic Income and the Global Commons

곽노완

doi:10.26587/marx.15.3.201808.006

Global Basic Income and the Global Commons

MARXISM 21 ◽

10.26587/marx.15.3.201808.006 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 154-175

Author(s):

곽노완

Keyword(s):

Basic Income ◽

Global Commons

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Basic Income as a Human Right?

Tax, Inequality, and Human Rights ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190882228.003.0025 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 541-552

Author(s):

Daniel J. Hemel

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Public Goods ◽

The State ◽

Human Being ◽

Basic Income ◽

Human Right ◽

Global Commons ◽

The Public ◽

The Individual ◽

The Relationship

This chapter suggests a human rights–based justification for national basic income schemes, contrasting it with justifications based on welfarist principles or notions of entitlement to a share of the global commons. Starting from the premise that a state is a collective enterprise that generates a surplus, it contends that any human being who is an “obedient” member of that state has a right to some share of the surplus. That right—which arises from the relationship between the individual and the state, and is independent of need—could justify the entitlement to a basic income. Such income should be provided in cash, not in kind, because the latter risks depriving the individual of the enjoyment of his share of the surplus—in effect, forcing him to forfeit or transfer it to others if he does not use the public goods or services provided by the state.

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