The Good Life

A fabulous, must-see music video for a Basic Income Guarantee from Amsterdam - musical artists Pharaoh and Yara in, Het Goeie Leven, which, translated from Dutch means, "The Good Life."


 

You can enable the English language caption for this video (if you don't already see the translation on the bottom of the youtube screen); however, Artists For A Basic Income have also provided this google translation:

( Pharaoh )
I can watch the world
Complain about what I want
But it is only the actions
That make the difference
We can not sleep
Then we see the light
Labour is a choice
And nothing more is required
We are free -

( Yara )
Free because we choose a new beginning
For all of us
Team up
Create another system
Welcome to paradise

( Yara )
The good life
Life where I am entitled to
Just like you and like you
We're going to claim
Everything is now in place zn
We are finally free so free

( Pharaoh )
I have a right to leisure
I have a right to health and safety
Right to enough to live on
Because there is more than enough to divide
Yes , we can ensure that everyone comes around
No more hassles stress
- Basic Income - it makes you free
New approach to society

( Yara )
The good life
Life where I am entitled to
Just like you and like you
We're going to claim
Everything is now in place zn
We are finally free so free
( Yara )
Free because we choose a new beginning
For all of us
Team up
Create another system
Welcome to paradise

( Pharaoh + Yara )
I want a basic income - Oh Yeah
Do you want a basic income - unconditional
Basic Income - unconditionally
All - everyone
I want a basic income - unconditional
Do you want a basic income - unconditional
Basic income - oh yeah
All - everyone

( Pharaoh )
Free yourself , free the world . And live the good life

Also check out the video below from the campaign to bring a Basic Income Guarantee (B.I.G.) pilot program to local communities on Prince Edward Island, Canada.  Similar pilot programs in other countries have been successful in directly abolishing poverty.

The Canadian New Democratic Party is urging adoption of the pilot Basic Income Guarantee on Prince Edward Island since standard social service programs are (*shockingly*) not ending poverty (and that's what we want to do, and outright, isn't it?) ...

“The NDP firmly believes that the public health system can work well only if everybody can afford to be physically and mentally healthy. Each person needs the income to afford proper nutrition, education, recreation and community engagement,” added the NDP Leader.

In the last fiscal year, $2.3 million went unspent in the social assistance program and for this fiscal year, the same budget was cut by almost $2 million. In July 2013, a study by the University of Toronto indicated that 27% of Island children lived in households that could not afford adequate nutritious food.

“How can it be that we have so many people in need and not have the right programming to help them? Let’s move to a solution that will improve the health and well-being of our people as well as strengthen our local economy. Let’s move to the basic income guarantee,” concluded Redmond.

In the U.S., we need to learn from and join with this growing international campaign for a guaranteed basic income.  The interviewed Prince Edward Island women in this video could easily be American women sharing similar experiences living in poverty, when it can, instead, be directly abolished.