Canada's been toying with the idea for decades, and conservatives keep shutting down tests of the system before they can produce results.
The pandemic, though, has been a pretty reasonable test-bed. Our economy's doing fine. As tragic as this has been, the one good thing is it's likely to bring about a basic income system nationally much sooner than if we hadn't suffered this.
I will not accept your tone-policing nonsense to try and shame me away from using the appropriate and accurate language to describe the status quo.
People
are regularly forced to work jobs they do not want to work. By the need to feed themselves, to keep a roof over their heads, to provide for their children, to support family who need it. That's the
definition of duress. And exploiting duress to ensure that workers have little to no choice is a form of slavery.
It's not
chattel slavery, but slavery has
many forms. And
wage slavery is a recognized, defined term, and I am using it 100% appropriately. You just don't
like it, because it points out the exploitative and abusive nature of the capitalist system. Well, tough nuts. It is what it is, and I'm not going to let you shame me away from describing it this way.