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Re:Finland Is Considering Testing Giving Every Citizen €800 ... by rjsw on Monday December 07, 2015 @01:27PM (#10691419)
So they live somewhere other than Helsinki.

Once you stop forcing people to prove that they are looking for work then you can spread them around the country a bit more.

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Re:Finland Is Considering Testing Giving Every Citizen €800 ... by LunaSea on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:25PM (#10691954)
The point of a universal wage is not to stop people from working though and not living in a big city removes almost any chance of working in most European countries.
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Re:Finland Is Considering Testing Giving Every Citizen €800 ... by rjsw on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:58PM (#10692207)
A quick Wikipedia check [1] says that there are other towns in Finland, I would expect them to grow a bit. I would also expect people to take a bit of time to decide what kind of work they could do within the new system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland#Urbanization

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