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Re:Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build ... by notahacker on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:26AM (#23140964)
Sure, and my argument is that proving that welfare recipients who temporarily received a greater subsidy than other welfare recipients self-reported greater levels of happiness than welfare recipients on less money does absolutely nothing to undermine arguments about welfare dependency.

The arguments - with varying degreees of plausibility - are all of the form 'long term welfare dependency is unhealthy for society' not, 'welfare recipients would be happier if their welfare income was lower'.

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Re:Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build ... by Ensorceled on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:38AM (#23141035)
Ok. Why are you making that argument to me? I never asserted the opposite? Why are disagreeing with a point I never made?
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Re:Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build ... by notahacker on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:04AM (#23141201)
You disagreed with someone up the chain that the experiment's conclusions were "obvious". Since all the experiment appears to have found is that recipients of temporarily more generous benefit entitlements self report less stress and greater confidence than those who receive less generous entitlement, even most hardened opponents of the welfare state would agree that such conclusions were obvious.
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