Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:46PM
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I mean, these are pilots.
They absolutely could result in the participants quitting their jobs, or just spending the money on booze and drugs and becoming unproductive and unhappy.
This appears to not be the case so far, so the results may justify a larger-scale, longer-term program, which may eventually provide enough evidence for a smaller nation or state to take the leap of rolling out a full-fledged UBI.
You're interested in the scalability of the thing, but we're still in the proof-of-concept phase, merely trying to deduce whether or not the idea actually has any potential, or if it's completely dead-on-arrival.
They absolutely could result in the participants quitting their jobs, or just spending the money on booze and drugs and becoming unproductive and unhappy.
This appears to not be the case so far, so the results may justify a larger-scale, longer-term program, which may eventually provide enough evidence for a smaller nation or state to take the leap of rolling out a full-fledged UBI.
You're interested in the scalability of the thing, but we're still in the proof-of-concept phase, merely trying to deduce whether or not the idea actually has any potential, or if it's completely dead-on-arrival.