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The BIG as a model for development aid
I have a variety of contacts with people working in the development sector
and I have to say that I am shocked by how little systematic knowledge we have about the activity necessary to advance development.
There is basically no economic model that is telling you
in a certain stage of development you have to do this and that in order to attain the next step of development.
The development aid that is currently done is always ambivalent and often not responding to the local necessities
because people are being told what to do in order to improve while the people are excluded from the actual decision-making process.
The BIG would allow for exchange, you are not continuously dependent on being paid or otherwise you cannot do what earth requires.
I think that if Europe would finance a basic income at the Ivory Coast we would continue to create dependencies.
I believe that the BIG needs to be introduced by each country itself as that would be a developmental step.
I think that especially among poorer countries it is more important to redistribute money into other areas such as infrastructure
schools, kindergartens, social institutions, streets
i.e. the basics to be able to interact with each other.
I am not sure whether the payment of money to individuals would be the right way.
We need to get rid of the charity thought.
Us – whoever – rich industrial countries help you poor developing countries, no!
If you turn this around and put everyone on equal footing, then this alms behaviour will stop and it has to stop.
All humans are equally valuable. No one has the right to place himself above others.
1. Introducable in one country alone? // 2. Would a BIG strengthen democracy? // 3. Is the conception of human too idealistic? // 4. Other topic