Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds
by eesmith on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:33PM
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The evidence from this trial is that people who received UBI did not treat it as a vacation. Indeed, "The employment rate for basic income recipients improved slightly more during this period than for the control group."
"I really enjoyed my vacation paid for by my automated business and therefore basic income will improve people's well-being" is not a good argument for UBI. Of course people will have a good time when someone else is paying for them. But how does society afford to do that?