Re:Lottery-Like Prizes Coax Savings. What’s the Risk in Expa...
by amelius on Friday December 21, 2018 @05:48PM
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Can't we have a lottery that, as a prize, provides basic income? Then at least we can use it to do experiments with the concept of UBI.
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Re:Lottery-Like Prizes Coax Savings. What’s the Risk in Expa...
by luhn on Friday December 21, 2018 @06:03PM
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a) They already do. You're given a choice between a single payout or regular installments over a period of many years (i.e. basic income).
b) There's no shortage of BI experiments, both past and ongoing. https://www.businessinsider.com/basic-income-experiments-in-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income#Examples_of_basic...