UNCONDITIONAL BASIC INCOME - MACIEJ SZLINDER

What would you do if you didn't have to worry about rent? When could you choose the best job offer, not the one you have to agree to? If you could educate and develop yourself without wasting valuable time on side jobs? The revolution is closer than you think. Maciej Szlinder's book is a fascinating journey through the idea of unconditional basic income, analyzing its roots, assumptions and potential consequences for society and the economy.

• Meeting basic living needs
• Opportunity to choose the best job offer
• Education and development without financial pressure
• Analysis of arguments for and against UBI
• Sources of the concept and its variants
• Global debate on UBI
• Functioning in Polish conditions

Unconditional basic income (UBI) is a benefit paid to every person regardless of age, income and employment, enabling them to meet basic living needs. It is based on a simple idea: let people not worry about surviving the next week, month or year. Utopia or a cure for the problems of the modern world? An illusion for people who do not understand how the economy works, or an answer to the question of how to eliminate poverty by law?

Szlinder, referring to the most diverse economic, philosophical and social attitudes, points to the sources of the concept and its variants. He looks at the global debate on UBI, analyzes the arguments for and against, and considers how such a solution could function in Polish conditions. Szlinder's book is the first Polish guide to the idea of unconditional basic income. The author gives in it tips on how to think about the economy in a world after the financial crisis of 2008, in which inequalities are growing, technology is irreversibly changing the labor market, and traditional economics is helpless in the face of the problems of the 21st century.