Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds
by lovich on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:37PM
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why were you hoping that people would work more?
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Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds
by radu_floricica on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:36PM
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There's such thing as poverty trap. You need money to survive so you get a low paying job, you can't afford to quit it so you keep at it, 10 years pass and you're still there. UBI was supposed to short-circuit this. But at least in that particular study we didn't see a lot of it happening - even though 1-2 years should be enough time to change things.
Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds
by SiempreViernes on Thursday May 07, 2020 @01:02PM
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Because current unemployment support works on the idea that people must be scared by poverty into getting a new job, and so being unemployed is ultimately a state society tries to punish you out off.
If simply giving people money left them more successful at getting a new job, there would really not be any point in all the CV theatre a jobseeker routinely needs to perform.