Free Lunch Society

The documentary takes up the idea of an unconditional basic income. The question it asks is what you would do if your income were secured each month. The film puts that question in several countries. In Alaska a share of the oil revenue goes to everyone. One family’s yearly payment goes toward schooling for the children. Trials in Canada and Namibia are described as well. The history of the idea is taken from the beginning. For a long time it was treated as a utopia. Switzerland voted on the question in 2016. The film shows what came before and after that vote. Business people and academics are among those speaking. The director Christian Tod supports the idea himself. The documentary does not hide that. The account is built as an advocacy film. The opposing view is not given wide room. Götz Werner and Daniel Häni appear in the ninety four minute documentary. It is an Austrian and German production Christian Tod finished in 2017.