{"id":26521,"date":"2016-06-06T10:39:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T17:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=26521"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:38:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:38:53","slug":"why-switzerlands-basic-income-idea-is-not-crazy-by-scott-santens-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/why-switzerlands-basic-income-idea-is-not-crazy-by-scott-santens-politico","title":{"rendered":"Why Switzerland\u2019s basic income idea is not crazy \u2014 By Scott Santens | Politico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Activists pose on top of a giant poster reading \u201cWhat would you do if your income was taken care of?\u201d, setting the Guinness World Record for the largest poster ever printed, on May 14, 2016 in Plainpalais place in Geneva. A campaign group backing an unconditional minimum income in Switzerland set a Guinness Record for the world\u2019s largest poster on May 14, seeking to rally support for the controversial idea ahead of a referendum next month. The record breaking 8,115 square metre (87,350 square feet) poster was made with a series of massive black plastic sheets, with the words \u201cWhat would you do if your income was taken of\u201d written in gold lettering. (FABRICE COFFRINI\/AFP\/Getty Images) <p>\u201cSeven out of 10 voters fully expect another referendum in Switzerland, and the beginning of a necessary national conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/unconditional-basic-income-news-why-switzerlands-basic-income-idea-is-not-crazy-vote-referendum\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSeven out of 10 voters fully expect another referendum in Switzerland, and the beginning of a necessary national conversation.\u201d Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1759,1490],"tags":[2295],"class_list":["post-26521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-governance","category-government","tag-basic-income"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41394,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26521\/revisions\/41394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}