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By Bruno COLMANT, Doctor in Applied Economics, Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium
The universal basic income has many meanings, but it leads to the payment of a monetary income to everyone without any counterpart or resource condition. This allowance would replace various aids and subsidies that a citizen receives from the community in the insurance system that characterizes a social state. The universal basic income draws a line under eighty years of social security. How much should it be? No one knows. Some people put forward the figure of €1,000 per month, but that's not the point: a social security system based on solidarity does not lead to a unification of aid but to its modulation according to individual situations. Thus, a universal basic income...
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