The human right to basic income

Abstract

The evolution of humanity has placed us at a point where social exclusion has become a pressing problem that jeopardizes many of the gains we have achieved in order to ensure the dignity of all people. Faced with this exclusion, society has tried to offer answers to integrate people whose socioeconomic conditions put them in a disadvantageous position. The answers, until now, in most cases have opted for the focused attention of those who are in that disadvantaged position. However, several intellectuals argues that these responses are incomplete, fragmentary and don’t respect the dignity of people, so they propose a diverse and innovative solution to correct these problems. In this way, the idea of ​​basic income has been built as a new human right. It constitutes a theoretical approach that aims to be implemented in modern societies with the purpose of endowing the members of this conglomerate with higher levels of freedom and equality. Conceptualized as a universal, unconditional income, of periodic delivery and distributed by the State, the basic income is considered an emerging human right proposed to eradicate the harmful effects that social exclusion and poverty of individuals in a specific human community. This idea has a historical background, which has allowed to outline the institute. In addition, it can be pointed out that the main justifications for this mechanism of distribution of wealth are anchored in a justification that begins in the natural right to give way to arguments of an ethical nature. That robust conceptualization, however, does not exempt the basic income from a multiplicity of critics that are opposed because of the non-traditional character of its contents.