Basically, it can mean the same thing, but it is sometimes a kind of play on words, because you can interpret a lot into both. The most important thing about both words, however, is always what comes before them.

So we know the solidary, conditional, guaranteed, circular or also the unconditional basic income or just a basic security.

Many people seem to have a problem with the latter, either because they believe that there is nothing unconditional, or they are afraid of it because unconditionality could guarantee people’s freedom.

Another reason why unconditionality often falls by the wayside is that people still see people as objects who have to spend the money they receive from a basic income in the country where it is paid out. This creates an expectation towards the people who receive a basic income, which corresponds to the consideration that the basic income has to be spent again in the respective country.

Georg Vobruba (professor of sociology) aptly said in 2017 that we are not dealing enough with questions of strategy and have thus fallen into a utopia trap.
According to Vobruba, the place of residence at least already constitutes a condition (cf. Vobruba, 2017).

The basic idea of the unconditional basic income is “the freedom of the individual” and this can only be achieved through unconditionality, especially if it is implemented as a human right.

For only through this would it be guaranteed that one could never again lose an “unconditional basic income” once received, or only through the occurrence of one’s own death.
In many UBI models, the main residence is considered a fixed component and a clear condition for receiving a supposedly “unconditional” basic income.
A contradiction in terms?
Or perhaps just another form of unconditionality, if one sees basic income merely as a fiscal measure within a country.

Yes, there are often small and subtle differences.
Whether an unconditional basic income is only implemented as a fiscal measure or as a human right remains to be seen.
I think we should implement it as a human right, as this could save us enormous administrative and control effort and at the same time send a clear signal to finally comply with human rights in their true essence and to bring them from paper into reality.

Especially if one sees a UBI (unconditional basic income) as a human right that has to apply universally (regardless of a border), setting a residence requirement would be contradictory, since a human right once acquired should not be lost at a border.
With the introduction of the unconditional basic income, human rights would be implemented for the first time. Unfortunately, at first only for the respective citizens of a country – whereby the birthplace principle would have to be applied here – which would take this first step.

This would be the first step, but it could create a domino effect that would make other countries follow suit.

The model “UBI+” meets exactly these requirements to bring it into the world as a human right.

The wonderful thing that always excited me about the UBI was that it could help to implement human rights for the first time.
You too can help and become part of the movement.

written by Alexander Zirkelbach

When I observe people, I see sad, anxious and above all stressed creatures. I see a permanent struggle for more sales, more turnover and more profits.
It seems that people have no or far too little time for themselves, their loved ones and also for nature.

This is reflected in their attitude towards nature, the way they treat other people and the often destructive behavior towards themselves.
It gives the impression that they are exclusively busy chasing money so they can meet all their obligations.

I am curious and therefore constantly looking to understand things or improve what already exists.
This characteristic is a purely human one and is in all of us. People can only develop through their own natural curiosity, and we see this particularly pronounced in babies and young children.

So there is no need for any kind of coercion for people to get into action, because people are constantly doing something, from birth to the end of their lives.
And since every activity is also work, people have been working since birth.

Now this may sound a bit strange for one or the other reader, but if you think about it a bit, you will very quickly come to the realization that birth can often be a real hard work not only for the mother herself, but also for the respective child.

And then right after birth, the newborn begins its work of exploring the world around it, learning more about itself and its own abilities. It begins to perceive its environment through its eyes, continues with its first movements, and then leads so far as to learn at least a first language.

The work that is done here is priceless, both the work of the parents themselves, as well as the various activities that already a baby, toddler, child and then adolescent performs until he then matures into an adult.

In the sum a true achievement, which is accomplished here. But unfortunately this is performed to date unpaid.

And all these unpaid activities, both on the part of the parents, as well as from the point of view of the children, which are altogether enormously important, often lead to a certain lack of financial means, as well as to missing, temporal resources.

These deficiencies then often lead to problems that are detrimental both to the individual, to their own family, and often to the common good of a society.

And this is exactly what unconditional basic income is all about: On the one hand, to have sufficient financial means to have the necessary time for oneself and one’s loved ones with it. Because only in this way can we become free beings to set our own priorities and thus live as meaningful a life as possible in dignity.

And on the other hand, thanks to the unconditional basic income, a multitude of new opportunities arise. Especially that of being able to say NO to precarious and for oneself meaningless activities at any time, as well as to seize new opportunities that were previously unthinkable for oneself.

And by the way, everyone could discover and develop his or her own personal potential.
An unconditional basic income would be the lever that could lead people into a new age of humanity and the potentialization of their own abilities.

written by Alexander Zirkelbach

6 simple steps how to register your new online account and then receive an unconditional transfer of 3000 “PR” every month.

First step: Open the registration form.
Second step: Fill in at least all 4 mandatory fields:
Your name.
Your e-mail address.
Your new password for the new account.
Repeat your new password to check it.
Third step: Optionally, instead of the new account number chosen by the system, you can also choose your own desired account.
To do this, you can freely select a number with 16 digits in the free field after the two country letters.
The system will then show you if the selected account number is still free, a green sign tells you that the number is still free.
Fourth step: You can also select your country, the country code of your new account number will change accordingly.
Fifth step: And now you can choose if you want to create a new private account or a business account.
Please note that only personal accounts receive an unconditional transfer every month. Business accounts do not receive any unconditional transfer. If you want to create a business account, you still need to specify your company name.
Both accounts are completely free for life.
If everything is filled in correctly, please press the “Register” button to submit the form.
Sixth step: Now you will receive an email from us to the email address you provided (If our email does not appear in your inbox, please check your SPAM folder) with a link that confirms your email address, please click on the link in this email so that your account can be successfully confirmed.
Only then it will be possible for you to log in to your new account.

And now have fun and success with your new online account and the many possibilities that this account and the monthly unconditional transfer of 3000 “PR” allow you.

written by Alexander Zirkelbach

While people all over the world are already suffering from high inflation rates and the resulting price increases….
….There is in parallel an alternative money system which is already used by people from 7 countries.
– Germany
– Finland
– Canada
– Kenya
– Austria
– Venezuela
– United States
Each of the participants has been receiving a monthly unconditional transfer of PR 3,000 since the beginning of 2022.
On 22.02.2022 we also got the first maximum price dictatorship, thus definitely ending inflation for all times.
Join now Bonum-Commune.net and receive 3.000 PR monthly.
Your own account is completely free because it serves the common good.

Money is something artificially created by humans, therefore it is also arbitrarily formable.

Instead of continuing to serve money, to constantly chase after it, it would be much more interesting if money could serve us humans and flow like a river wherever it is needed and would be good for the common good.

This gave me the following idea.

A “neutral money system”
Let’s put the creation of money into the hands of those people who can decide on a local and decentralized level, through democratic mechanisms, what new money gets created for, in order to cover all governmental (community) expenses.
Furthermore, we create money as a credit for the payment of an unconditional basic income. In this way, we immediately promote each individual, so that each person can develop freely.

By this changed money creation it needed neither taxes nor interest. Since all money in the future on credit basis is created.
All forms of dependence would then belong to the past, since each humans could lead a self-determined life owing to an unconditional basic income.

In the future, loans would also come into the world as credit balances and would no longer have to be repaid. It would instead of a private banking institution, where one checks the creditworthiness of a borrower, simply by an application form, which is submitted directly to the disbursing national bank of the respective country with sufficiently many support signatures and provided that all documents and data are present, it comes also to a direct disbursement of the desired amount directly on the account of the applicant.

This application form gets the business idea, the corresponding concept, as well as the corresponding amount of signatures depending on the amount of capital.
With each signature the idea of the respective applicant is evaluated by the people whether this would be a meaningful and the public welfare serving activity, which could provide for an increase in value within the community. Each signature could represent 1,000 PR.

This means that with a required credit sum of 100,000 PR (could also be euro, dollar or yen), exactly 100 humans are necessary for it to sign with their names, in order to give so this idea a chance to their realization.
Thus the monetary system would get completely democratized overnight.
And each humans would have all chances to realize itself in an economy oriented to the public welfare.

In order to guarantee stable prices, only one measure is needed and that is that all available resources receive maximum price dictates. This means finding a fair value that would henceforth be declared as the absolute maximum price, below which prices can continue to move freely according to supply and demand, but never above the agreed maximum price. This would definitely get rid of inflation (system error of the old system).
Speculations on resources of all kinds would also be strictly forbidden.

Here I have put up a small excerpt of some resources to show you how prices have changed from the lowest to the highest price in different time periods. This is to illustrate how much speculation can influence prices on the world markets and this could even lead to unnecessary famine in different regions.

The following prices (lowest and highest in each case) were determined in a time period, which lies between five to 20 years.

Palladium 133 to 2000
Platinum 641 to 1400
Nickel 6879 to 19800
Aluminum 1256 to 3170
Fuel oil 0.75 to 3.33
Natural gas 1.36 to 8.66
Gold 239 to 1767
Coffee 0.9 to 3.00
Sugar 0.08 to 0.33
Potatoes 2.3 to 32.70
Rice 7.00 to 24.00

Whether we are talking about dollar or euro rates is not important, it is much more important to realize what is actually going on in the background and how much this existing system can be manipulated.

This article is to point out also, how necessary it would be to rebuild the existing monetary system completely, since it may not be that these days, exactly on 14 October 2021, the current report of the world hunger assistance pointed out that up-to-date 811 million humans starve world-wide, whereby 41 million shortly before their hunger death stand, a deeply frightening reality, which – as so often – in the mass media hardly the necessary attention finds.

I think that there would be no more hunger in this world if we would finally say goodbye completely to this deeply inhumane profit society.

Together for a basic income!

written by Alexander Zirkelbach

In a world where money is seen as the dominant economic tool, it is necessary that all people are provided with enough money to enable them to live a self-determined life in dignity.

For those who have not yet become aware of this, there is now an “calculator for unpaid work” available in their national language to help them realise how much unpaid work each of us does. This calculator also aims to show that without these activities, other forms of work, such as paid gainful employment, would hardly be possible.

It takes every individual in our society to make it function well and properly. If we were aware of this, there would also be an unconditional basic income. In the spirit of a humane, peaceful and happy coexistence of all people on this wonderful planet, I look forward to the introduction of an unconditional basic income in the near future.

Join in and be part of it. Together for a basic income!

written by Alexander Zirkelbach

Da bei vielen Modellen eines bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens die Bedingungslosigkeit oft nicht ernst genommen wird, habe ich mal den Verein MEINGRUNDEINKOMMEN angeschrieben – Ja genau der, welcher die Grundeinkommen für jeweils nur ein Jahr verlost – und dort nachgefragt wie diese die Bedingungslosigkeit sehen.

Folgende Frage wurde von mir gestellt:
Ist das Grundeinkommen welches man bei euch gewinnen könnte tatsächlich bedingungslos?
Könnte ich damit auch ins Ausland gehen und es auch in diesen Zeitraum während ich mich im Ausland aufhalte weiterhin erhalten?
Und das bekam ich als Antwort:
__________________________
Hallo Alexander,
vielen Dank für deine Nachricht. Ja, es ist bedingungslos. Es ist egal, woher du kommst oder wo du wohnst oder was du mit dem Grundeinkommen machst.
__________________________
Ja, wunderbar. Genau das ist ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen, egal wo man wohnt und egal was man damit macht, eben bedingungslos.

Written by Alexander Zirkelbach

Zu Beginn des 21ten Jahrhunderts stand die Welt vor mehreren grossen scheinbar unlösbaren Problemen – lokale Konflikte um die Herrschaft, um Einflüsse, Geld und Macht dominierten immer noch die Menschheit und hielt diese immer wieder in Atem.

Neben einer neuerlichen Zunahme von Armut, politischen Unruhen und wirtschaftlicher Ausbeutung – rebellierten diesmal zunehmend auch Kinder und Jugendliche um sich für eine klimafreundliche Politik und humaneren Wirtschaft einzusetzen, indem sie einfach zum Schulstreik ansetzten.

Mitten drinnen nahm eine alte Idee, die des Bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens wieder fahrt auf und bekam am Höhepunkt der Diskussionen um mögliche Finanzierungskonzepte und Umsetzungsideen eine komplett neue Richtung – als erstmals in diesem Zusammenhang eine Geldsystem-Reform gefordert wurde, die das bestehende System auf den Kopf stellen sollte.

Zu Beginn wurde die Idee einfach ignoriert und oft auch belächelt, doch als der Ideengeber eine uralte Idee des eW – exponentiellen Wachstums ins Spiel brachte und mit den ersten Menschen darüber sprach und ihnen zeigte wie einfach eine sehr gute Idee weiter erzählt werden kann und welche Effekte diese mit sich bringen könnte – begann etwas ganz neues.

Ab diesem Moment – es wird historisch als der entscheidende Schritt beschrieben – wurde diese Idee massiv bekämpft.

Dies war der Beginn einer Erfolgsstory die bereits im 15ten Jahrhundert ihren Ursprung hatte, als erstmals über ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen nachgedacht wurde – doch diesmal dauerte es lediglich wenige Jahre bis die ersten Länder an der realen Umsetzung gearbeitet hatten.

Möglicherweise hatte das einen Zusammenhang mit dem Ereignis am 12. März 1989 als Berners-Lee seinem Arbeitgeber ein Projekt vorschlug, das auf dem Prinzip des Hypertexts beruhte und den weltweiten Austausch sowie die Aktualisierung von Informationen zwischen Wissenschaftlern vereinfachen sollte. In der Folge entstand etwas was die Generationen vor ihm nicht im Traum erdenken konnten. Es dauerte weniger als 20 Jahre und der Computer wurde im Schachspiel unbesiegbar. Die ersten sprachen schon dazumal von künstlicher Intelligenz obwohl man noch weit davon entfernt war.

Die Geschichte die ich meine war die von Sissa ibn Dahir. In einer alten Wikipedia Kopie fand mein Urgrossvater einmal folgenden Text:

„Der indische Herrscher Shihram tyrannisierte seine Untertanen und stürzte sein Land in Not und Elend. Um die Aufmerksamkeit des Königs auf seine Fehler zu lenken, ohne seinen Zorn zu entfachen, schuf Dahirs Sohn, der weise Brahmane Sissa, ein Spiel, in dem der König als wichtigste Figur ohne Hilfe anderer Figuren und Bauern nichts ausrichten kann. Der Unterricht im Schachspiel machte auf Shihram einen starken Eindruck. Er wurde milder und ließ das Schachspiel verbreiten, damit alle davon Kenntnis nähmen. Um sich für die anschauliche Lehre von Lebensweisheit und zugleich Unterhaltung zu bedanken, gewährte er dem Brahmanen einen freien Wunsch. Dieser wünschte sich Weizenkörner: Auf das erste Feld eines Schachbretts wollte er ein Korn, auf das zweite Feld das Doppelte, also zwei, auf das dritte wiederum die doppelte Menge, also vier und so weiter. Der König lachte und war gleichzeitig erbost über die vermeintliche Bescheidenheit des Brahmanen.

Als sich Shihram einige Tage später erkundigte, ob Sissa seine Belohnung in Empfang genommen habe, musste er hören, dass die Rechenmeister die Menge der Weizenkörner noch nicht berechnet hätten. Der Vorsteher der Kornkammer meldete nach mehreren Tagen ununterbrochener Arbeit, dass er diese Menge Getreidekörner im ganzen Reich nicht aufbringen könne. Auf allen Feldern eines Schachbretts zusammen wären es 2 hoch 64-1 oder 18.446.744.073.709.551.615 (˜ 18,45 Trillionen) Weizenkörner. Nun stellte er sich die Frage, wie das Versprechen eingelöst werden könne. Der Rechenmeister half dem Herrscher aus der Verlegenheit, indem er ihm empfahl, er solle Sissa ibn Dahir ganz einfach das Getreide Korn für Korn zählen lassen.“
Quelle: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sissa_ibn_Dahir

Den ersten Botschaftern leuchtete dieses Prinzip auf anhieb ein und sie benutzten es um ihre Botschaft weltweit zu verbreiten. Wir haben immer noch ein T-shirt das mein Urgrossvater aufbewahrte. Dort ist ein Aufdruck mit den Zahlen 36 | 24 | 36. Mir wurde gesagt das war seine Vision. Er glaubte die gute Nachricht innerhalb von 96 Monaten weltweit verkünden zu können damit ein kollektives Bewusstsein entsteht das die damalige Machtelite zwang einen neuen Kurs einzulenken.

Und heute 2070 feiern wir bereits zum 40ten mal die weltweite Umsetzung des Bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens – welche die Welt nicht nur näher zusammen gebracht hat, sondern für weltweiten Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und Demokratie gesorgt hat in dem sich nun jeder Mensch völlig frei entfalten kann.
Und im kommenden Jahr feiert mein Ur-Opa der damals alles begann bereits seinen 100. Geburtstag.
Ich Danke meinen Urgrossvater und allen Menschen die an diese wunderbare Idee fest geglaubt hatten.
Ich bin Sofia und werde nächste Woche 13 Jahre alt.
Quelle: Erzählung aus privaten Archiv.

Written by Alexander Zirkelbach