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Social security and the right to laziness beyond just basic income

Alexander De Becker (UGent) and Flore Claus (UGent)
(2024) Labour law utopias : post-growth & post-productive work approaches. p.201-220
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This contribution examines the positioning of the right to laziness and the potential for guaranteeing a basic income within a utopian, post-productive labour paradigm. That necessitates a profound shift in the financing of social security. While social security systems in various countries historically relied on the Bismarck or Beveridge models, this distinction has become fluid. Several countries combine elements from both models but inadequately address the need to reform the social security system in light of demographic shifts. With a shrinking workforce, the pressure to finance the current system is increasing. Work is progressively considered an obligation rather than a fundamental right. Establishing the right to laziness, granting individuals the freedom to choose whether to work or not, requires a fundamental shift in perspective. By financing social security through alternative means, such as consumption taxes instead of labour and income taxes, a pathway to generating a basic income within a utopian context becomes possible.
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right to laziness, right to work, basic income, social security reform, financing social security, social law

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MLA
De Becker, Alexander, and Flore Claus. “Social Security and the Right to Laziness beyond Just Basic Income.” Labour Law Utopias : Post-Growth & Post-Productive Work Approaches, edited by Nicolas Bueno et al., Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 201–20, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198889755.003.0011.
APA
De Becker, A., & Claus, F. (2024). Social security and the right to laziness beyond just basic income. In N. Bueno, B. ter Haar, & N. Zekic (Eds.), Labour law utopias : post-growth & post-productive work approaches (pp. 201–220). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198889755.003.0011
Chicago author-date
De Becker, Alexander, and Flore Claus. 2024. “Social Security and the Right to Laziness beyond Just Basic Income.” In Labour Law Utopias : Post-Growth & Post-Productive Work Approaches, edited by Nicolas Bueno, Beryl ter Haar, and Nuna Zekic, 201–20. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198889755.003.0011.
Chicago author-date (all authors)
De Becker, Alexander, and Flore Claus. 2024. “Social Security and the Right to Laziness beyond Just Basic Income.” In Labour Law Utopias : Post-Growth & Post-Productive Work Approaches, ed by. Nicolas Bueno, Beryl ter Haar, and Nuna Zekic, 201–220. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198889755.003.0011.
Vancouver
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De Becker A, Claus F. Social security and the right to laziness beyond just basic income. In: Bueno N, ter Haar B, Zekic N, editors. Labour law utopias : post-growth & post-productive work approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2024. p. 201–20.
IEEE
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A. De Becker and F. Claus, “Social security and the right to laziness beyond just basic income,” in Labour law utopias : post-growth & post-productive work approaches, N. Bueno, B. ter Haar, and N. Zekic, Eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 201–220.
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