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Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds by radu_floricica on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:10PM (#23106148)
It's a negative result. What isn't there matters - in particular, no info on there being some form of monetary ROI.

I don't have other sources at hand - just memories from when the study was published and there was quite a lot of discussion.

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Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds by marcosdumay on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:32PM (#23106424)
Hum... I've searched the study, and it looks like results are still scheduled to be published this year. Granted that it was a quick search, but I get no source for the claim that the result was negative.

Besides, UBI being cheaper to administer than current social security, failure in finding any difference is a reason to adopt it, not to keep the status quo.

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Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds by radu_floricica on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:51PM (#23106706)
UBI is definitely not cheaper that current social security. "To administer" maybe, but the total cost is probably orders of magnitude more, and doesn't even solve the problem: certain demographics will still need extra.
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Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds by marcosdumay on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:30PM (#23107928)
> UBI is definitely not cheaper that current social security.

If you count taxing a person to give the money back to the same person as a cost, it's certainly not.

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