Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds

Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds by commandlinefan on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:28PM (#23107893)

> living off $1k a month where I live (and it's a relatively cheap area) isn't feasible

Nor is an additional $3 trillion/year expenditure feasible forever. That's what's so disturbing about discussions around UBI: there seem to be people who, genuinely and unironically, believe that the reason some of us are concerned about the concept is because we don't realize how happy not having to work would make people. They appear to believe that, once they've demonstrated that yes, it will really make people happy, they'll have won the fight for UBI.

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Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds by danielscrubs on Friday May 08, 2020 @03:16AM (#23112211)

I agree.

For anyone else that has a hard time knowing how much taxes the US has to play with, I checked the US military budget and it's around $721.5 billion for 2020.

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Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds by fartcannon on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:41PM (#23108049)

There will come a time when we are capable of a post-scarcity society. Is that now? Maybe. Maybe not. How do we know if we don't try. Make it our target, and we will solve the other problems. If we never change, we will never change.

Let's try to make our lives better.

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Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds by manicdee on Sunday May 10, 2020 @07:44AM (#23131902)

So you wouldn’t plan an extra $3B in taxation to reduce inflation?

Remembering that governments with fiat currencies don’t tax for income, they tax for constraining money supply.

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