"Lifelong wage" (salaire à vie) or "personal competency wage" (salaire à la qualification personnelle) refers to a form of remuneration proposed by Bernard Friot and the French popular education voluntary association Réseau Salariat. At its core is the distinction between work and employment. Publicly funded using social contributions, it would be the building block for a new mode of socioeconomic system.
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The lifelong wage consists in paying every citizen a wage by socialising wealth through social contributions (cotisations sociales in French).According to this conception of economic value, every citizen is entitled to a lifelong wage which is attached to an irrevocable grade of professional competency. This theory advocates a new common definition of work which establishes a clear distinction from employment.Such a wage would not be tied to a particular post—owned by an employer—but to a political...