Download or read book Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income written by K. Widerquist and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income argues that philosophers have focused too much on scalar freedom and proposes a theory of status freedom as effective control self-ownership: the power to have or refuse active cooperation with other willing people, or simply: freedom as the power to say no.