Universal Basic Income

to gain traction (to become more and more important)

prendre de l'ampleur

no strings attached

sans conditions

a handful (a very small number of people or things)

une poignée

a scheme (a plan that is / in this context / developed by a government)

un projet

a feature (an important part or aspect of sthg)

une caractéristique

to endorse / to advocate / to support

souscrire à / approuver / endosser (chèque)

a tycoon (a rich and powerful person that is involved in business or industry)

un magnat

a cushion

une protection

to alleviate (to make sthg less painful)

alléger

to disincentivize (to give the incentive not to do sthg)

décourager / dissuader

to be well-off

être aisé

to enhance / to improve

améliorer / accroître

conventional wisdom (beliefs or opinions that most people accept as correct)

sagesse populaire

to rest on/ upon (to be based on sthg)

reposer sur qqch

an assumption (belief)

une présomption

to relieve / to alleviate (to make a problem less serious)

atténuer / alléger

welfare system (the system by which a country looks after its citizens by providing them with education / medical care or money if they are unable to work)

système de protection sociale

forebears (your forebears are the people in your family who lived a long time ago)

ancêtres

inheritance / heritage / legacy

héritage

social dividend (the positive benefits of sthg)

retombée sociale

rentier capitalism (the belief in economic practices of monopolization of access to property and gaining profit without contributing to society)

capitalisme rentier

to channel sthg into sthg (to use your energy / ability / feelings / or ideas for a particular purpose)

diriger qqch vers

an anchor for sthg (someone or sthg that is strong and reliable and so makes people feel safe)

un point d'encrage

the precariat (a social group consisting of people whose lives are difficult because they have little job security)

le précariat

to preach / to exhort (to express a strong opinion and try to persuade others)

prêcher

unaccountable (people or organizations that do not have to explain their actions)

qui n'a pas à répondre de ses actes

to deprive someone of sthg (to take it away from them or prevent them from having it)

priver de

bandwidth (human intelligence / ability to understand things quickly in a business context)

bande passante (capacité cognitive)

altruistic / charitable / magnanimous

altruiste

to bandy about (to mention sthg a lot without thinking much about it)

parler à tout bout de champ

on the back of the/ an envelope (quickly and without thinking about all the details)

sur un coin de table

clawback (money that a government or company gets again after losing it)

récupération

to roll back / to cut back / to decrease

réduire

regressive subsidies (subsidies that benefit the rich more than the poor)

subvention regressive

tax breaks (a reduction in the tax that you must pay)

exemption fiscale

to give out / to distribute / to hand out

distribuer

a levy (an amount of money that you have to pay)

une taxe

to induce / to cause / to bring about

provoquer

to undermine / to weaken

affaiblir

to be borne out (to show that sthg is true)

être confirmé

to bear out

confirmer

to be embedded in / to be typical of

être inhérent à

means-tested (determination of whether an individual is eligible for assistance based on resources)

sous condition de ressources

disincentive / deterrent

dissuasif

untenable / unreasonable

insoutenable

to head for the rocks

échouer (s'échouer pour un bateau)

to be a failure

être un raté

to fail

échouer

to play host

accueillir

to climb the ladder

gravir les échelons

to prosper

prospérer / réussir

to strike a balance (to find the right balance)

trouver un équilibre

to be geared

être préparé

a flaw / a weakness

un défaut

gargantuan (extremely big)

énorme

tax burden (the amount of tax paid considered as a proportion of total income)

charge fiscale

a fellow citizen (someone who lives in the same country as you)

concitoyen

fellow (people who are similar to you or in the same situation)

compagnon

a bout of (a short period when sthg happens a lot)

une crise / une poussée

to draw upon / to draw on / to fall back on / to tap into

s'appuyer sur

streamlined / simplified

profilé / aérodynamique

to accommodate / to adapt to / to adjust to / to fit

s'adapter à

likewise / similarly (in the same way)

de la même manière

panacea (something that people think will solve all their problems)

panacée

bogus (not real / although pretending to be real)

faux / bidon

the gig economy (a labour market with short-term contracts or freelance work)

économie des petits boulots

reliance on / dependence on

dépendance à

zero-hours labour (contract where the employer is not obliged to provide minimum hours)

contrat-travail zéro-heure

"If UBI were to succeed"

si le revenu universel de base devait être un succès

to swell / to increase / to expand / to surge

gonfler

to command / to call for / to require

commander

the less well-off (those who have less money)

le pauvre

heavy-handed / harsh / oppressive

autoritaire

conditionality (sthg that must be true before another thing can happen)

une condition

to go with the grain (to be the same as what you feel is right)

aller dans le sens du courant

to go against the grain

aller à contre-courant