Job seekers throng a job fair in Hong Kong on October 29, amid the Covid-19 outbreak. Since the 2008 financial crisis, many people have entered the precariat class, and the pandemic is likely to escalate this depressing trend. Photo: Reuters
Letters | Coronavirus pandemic has heightened the case for a universal basic income for Hong Kong
- The global economy enriches the few while impoverishing the many. Such extreme inequalities are no longer tenable
- The Hong Kong government should study the basic income pilot schemes elsewhere that have belied the usual misconceptions on effect and affordability
Job seekers throng a job fair in Hong Kong on October 29, amid the Covid-19 outbreak. Since the 2008 financial crisis, many people have entered the precariat class, and the pandemic is likely to escalate this depressing trend. Photo: Reuters
