Posted on 05/25/2017 2:14:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For many years, Regent Park resident Sam Haque thought the Disney adage: “If you can dream it, you can do it” was advice only for people of privilege.
“I thought it was only something rich parents tell their children,” he says. “But I’m proof that everyone can do it. And that’s the message I’m trying to get out there.”
Haque, 35, who came to Toronto with his mother from Bangladesh when he was 15, turned his back on an opportunity to go to law school about eight years ago to follow his passion for doodling and design, and created Wise Media.
But it wasn’t until he joined Regent Park’s Centre for Social Innovation four years ago that he felt the true social mission of his graphic design and printing business.
“When you get a job, you are only helping yourself,” he says. “But when you become a social entrepreneur, you can help a whole lot of other people by giving them jobs too.”
Haque is an example of the kind of social entrepreneur that could benefit enormously from a basic income, says a thought-provoking report to be released Thursday.
“What if the people who were most at risk — people from low-income and marginalized communities who are living day to day with real challenges — were able to become social entrepreneurs?” asks the report by the Mowat Centre, a public policy think tank affiliated with the University of Toronto....
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...
More like chasing their drugs and alcohol habits.
In order to have “justice” somebody has to pay.
Wonder who they want to punish this time? It’s somebody’s fault right?
That *at risk* poverty is the motivating force to drive people to work.
If everyone were given a basic income that met their needs, they would continue on as fat dumb and happy.
Why yes, a famous philosopher once said this sort of thing about “self-realization”. Too bad it was Karl Marx.
He’s Canadian ... maybe he should haul his arse up to some of the “First Nations” villages in Nunavik, and see how it works up there ...
Doesn’t Steve Bannon advocate a universal basic income?
It’s a stupid and destructive idea regardless of who advocates it.
Guess, they never heard of this little thing called “Inflation”.
And, where does this communist “basic income” come from? Stolen money from someone else, with the government in the role of thief.
Time to enjoy the laughable stupidity until it all falls apart.
Ignorance is bliss. And stupid as well.
I just want to know...WHO IS GOING TO DO THE REAL WORK?
drugs..alcohol...casino....
Suckers?
Go ahead.
Create a right to a basic income.
My tiny condo in FL is paid for.
I’d be out of the work force so fast, it ain’t funny.
And the ‘basic income’ should come from one’s “basic daily work”
I agree. I’m just saying the Republican’s seem to be adopting it.
I know right? Sign me up for some o dat.
A twist on the Communist motto:
To each according to their wants, from each according to whether they want to get out of bed.
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