Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters

Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by jessaustin on Sunday June 05, 2016 @10:44AM (#11841200)

So you're suggesting what, gardening? Gardening is great, but it's not responsive to, "the price of food in Switzerland was insane..."

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by s3nnyy on Sunday June 05, 2016 @11:07AM (#11841344)

In Switzerland, imported and unprocessed food is surprisingly cheap. Veggies are maybe 20-30% more expensive than Germany.

Processed food like frozen pizza is expensive as a substantial amount of (manual?), well-paid labour goes into convenience food.

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by jessaustin on Sunday June 05, 2016 @11:30AM (#11841454)

In Switzerland, imported and unprocessed food is surprisingly cheap. Veggies are maybe 20-30% more expensive than Germany.

I must be misunderstanding something, because these two sentences seem to contradict. In Germany itself, "unprocessed food" is more expensive than in most of the rest of the world.

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by germanier on Sunday June 05, 2016 @01:47PM (#11842110)

According to Eurostat food prices in Germany are at the EU-15 average and slightly above the EU-28 avarage with fruits and vegetables slightly below.

Sure, in most of the rest of the world food is pcheaper but that compares to even lower income levels.

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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by cheald on Sunday June 05, 2016 @11:06AM (#11841334)

My sister in Geneva sources a lot of her food out of a community garden.

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