Re:Poverty changes your brain to make you less intelligent, ...
by AlexDragusin on Sunday September 22, 2019 @06:43PM
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> it did not appear to spur the recipients on to seek work more
> But when compared to a control group who were not receiving the basic income, the test subjects given the money, were not significantly more likely to have got back into employment.
I don't think the UBI was meant as a way to make people not want to look for better ways but to allow one to do it without the pressure of the basic expenses and bills piling up, that's how I see it. In the context of poverty and intelligence it would appear as this approach might not produce the intended results and I think that would be more related to how we're evolutionary wired to be lazy, there are advantages to that when it comes energy expenditure etc [0]
I don't think the UBI was meant as a way to make people not want to look for better ways but to allow one to do it without the pressure of the basic expenses and bills piling up, that's how I see it. In the context of poverty and intelligence it would appear as this approach might not produce the intended results and I think that would be more related to how we're evolutionary wired to be lazy, there are advantages to that when it comes energy expenditure etc [0]
[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00283...