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Re:12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income by tobiasSoftware on Monday May 07, 2018 @11:57AM (#17013764)
One of the big differences between the experiments that Finland did and actual UBI is that UBI is supposed to replace all kinds of monetary welfare. It sounds like the experiments in Finland failed because of the cost, but it's really hard to try that small scale, because many of the cost benefits of full scale UBI come from being able to shut down all of the overhead of various welfare programs.
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Re:12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income by nsgi on Monday May 07, 2018 @01:50PM (#17014787)
The potential savings from shutting down welfare programmes would be fairly easy to calculate, though.
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