Re:Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says
by rocgf on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:09AM
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Valid point, but I believe people will be less inclined to support this if basic income basically means "we can give all this money for free to people and they will do about the same as people we don't give money to". It's hard to justify it.
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Re:Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says
by avaika on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:14AM
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In the article they mention, that people from experimental group (w money) are feeling better from health perspective than people from control group (w/o money). I believe that's a strong point to justify the expenses.
Re:Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says
by SiempreViernes on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:14AM
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Uh, the very first sentence states that people feel better on UBI, for no loss of employment rate. So basically all the mental suffering associated with unemployment is pointless suffering.
Re:Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says
by askmike on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:38AM
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I'm not sure you can deduce that it's pointless. It's not like UBI doesn't have any other consequences (such as the feelings of the people who don't like UBI).
Note that I think UBI is a great idea.
Re:Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says
by mcv on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:31AM
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We're already giving free money to people, but at the moment we're giving money to people specifically for not working and for subjecting themselves to humiliating bureaucratic processes. So people get simultaneously rewarded and punished for not working.
Instead, let's just give them the money and give them some freedom.