Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds
by tomp on Thursday May 07, 2020 @01:54PM
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> wish everyone was given the chance to enjoy life on their own terms
Did anyone ever argue against it? The point of UBI isn’t that anyone wouldn’t want to get it - it’s that noone can pay for it (or rather, we as a society cannot).
I think COVID nicely shows what happens if the society stops working - labour shortages, soon translated into food and material shortages. Some (e.g. in the UK) are even paid by the government, it’s basically a temporary UBI!
Did anyone ever argue against it? The point of UBI isn’t that anyone wouldn’t want to get it - it’s that noone can pay for it (or rather, we as a society cannot).
I think COVID nicely shows what happens if the society stops working - labour shortages, soon translated into food and material shortages. Some (e.g. in the UK) are even paid by the government, it’s basically a temporary UBI!