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Re:Basic income in Finland did not lead to finding work, res... by snarf21 on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:39PM (#19117904)
Don't forget that all that bureaucracy is the source of thousands of good paying jobs that now also are worse off even when they get added to UBI. Also, don't forget that now that they have less money, their collective reduced spending means the business they used to patron will have to lay people off. Now those people also need UBI. This doesn't spiral to infinity but their is a huge ripple effect.
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Re:Basic income in Finland did not lead to finding work, res... by mcv on Friday February 08, 2019 @07:31PM (#19119889)
Yes, bureaucracy provides a lot of jobs, but they're not jobs that produce anything useful. You're just paying people to check if other people should also get paid. Just pay everybody and be done with it, and maybe let people do something more productive or fulfilling.
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Re:Basic income in Finland did not lead to finding work, res... by ThomPete on Friday February 08, 2019 @04:48PM (#19119010)
The overhead for condional basic income is huge, if most things are done by machine the cost of those will drop quite substantially whichmeans you need much less to get by.
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