Sobre la viabilidad social, política, técnica y económica de la renta básica de ciudadanía.

Abstract

In this article we want to deepen into a fundamental aspect for any political and social offer that claims to appear both in the public opinion and in the public agenda. Thus, any offer must pass, from our point of view, two important filters: the first one,the ethical and normative desirability, and the second one, the viability. And in this sense, the offer of the Basic Income of Citizenship (BIC) is not any exception. The debate about the BIC has centred in the first moment on the first of the filters, appearing throughout the latter years diverse and very interesting controversies in the matter. The second filter, the viability, does not seem to be so developed nowadays, and in this article we’ll raise a series of arguments to defend the viability of the above mentioned offer. For this, we will differentiate two types of viabilities inside the BIC: the political and social viability on the one hand, and the economic and technical on the other one. The article will try to highlight the importance of these aspects for the survival and the ripeness of an idea as the BIC, which initially provokes certain reticences in some social and political sectors. In this respect, aspects as the realism, the gradualism or a few suitable pedagogic and divulgative strategies can be important elements that it is necessary to bear in mind in the short, medium and long term.