Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds

Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds by JoeAltmaier on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:23AM (#23113990)

But with the UBI, the money isn't 'for' anything. Its just more money. It can be spent on donuts, or houses, or college, or hookers and blow. None of those markets has any 'claim' on the money. I doubt anybody will figure out a way to 'soak it up'

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Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds by irishcoffee on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:52PM (#23118110)

Agree to disagree. Giving people money will solve exactly zero problems.

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Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds by JoeAltmaier on Saturday May 09, 2020 @07:40AM (#23123900)

Despite all the evidence to the contrary?

Its FUD that keeps the UBI from happening. Not logic, evidence nor sound economic principles. Old farts that can't let go of 1950's notions of how people should behave.

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Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds by irishcoffee on Sunday May 10, 2020 @08:28PM (#23137637)

Did you read the link that created this thread? UBI won't solve anything. I hate to burst your bubble, but you're just ignoring facts. "Old farts" have nothing to do with it.

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Re:Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds by JoeAltmaier on Monday May 11, 2020 @11:39AM (#23143284)

A single limited Finnish experiment of limited duration was loosely characterized. Not proving anything; not rational to deduce all that from 'an article'. No, this is more cherry-picking to support a preconceived notion - that the Protestant Work Ethic will always be the right answer to everything.

Read a dozen more articles, not from your bubble, and then get back to me.

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