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Re:Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build ... by diekdnk on Monday May 11, 2020 @06:08AM (#23140512)
Since the target audience was rhe unemployed, changing up their type of income isn't going to give them a job, so prpductivity is difficult to measure.

The entire point of UBI is to secure everyones basic human needs, not get them a job (unlike unemployment benefits).

If we were to test UBI also on employed people, and observed their behavior, we might avtually gain useful insight into mechanica with UBI. Perhaps we will see more 6-hour workdays with more people employed?

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Re:Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build ... by jacquesm on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:15AM (#23140904)
If you already have your basic human needs met then it is just a shortcut to provide the money only to those that don't have that one checked off yet. Otherwise you'd just end up pumping money around from those that don't need it to those that don't need it.
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