Primeiro, o básico. Depois, o resto: o direito à renda básica

Abstract

One of the objectives of the Federative Republic of Brazil is the eradication of poverty and the reduction of socioeconomic disparities. According to the current national context, the constitutional commitment, at the same time as it constitutes an inescapable social agenda, can be considered a difficult challenge. There is a serious problem of social genetics, whose overcoming depends on the deparametrisation of equality, the deconstruction of legal individualism, the strengthening of solidarity and the harmonious placement of several public policies of specific focus. This essay is not intended to provide a definitive solution to poverty and social inequalities.Instead, it is intended to assume that scarcity involves both a lack of resources and a typical psychology, to argue that the primary providence of the broad social agenda should be the transfer of a basic income that sufficiency criterion.