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Zero citizen is a phrase that can be illustrated to explaining the future social status of most human persons in precarity, who do only part-time works and, therefore, unconnected with a nation-state. The modem term citizen of a nation state would have originated from a person’s life from the subjective perspectives: One may belong to a particular family, clan, community, but finally an equal citizen of a nation-state. Economic independence is the mark of a modern civilized citizen. The conception of nation state is drawn from this concept. But when machines would do all the production activities. The charity-supported citizens are not real citizens, they are zero citizens (neither citizens nor denizens) as they are denied all sort of economic rights of being a citizen.
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Varghese, M. (2021). Zero Citizens: Neither Citizens Nor Denizens. In: A Brief History of Creative Work and Plutonomy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9263-8_6
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