Re:Unemployment Is High. Why Are Businesses Struggling to Hire?
by Tarrosion on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @10:42AM
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UBI seems very different? You lose unemployment benefits if you start working; you wouldn't lose UBI benefits.
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Re:Unemployment Is High. Why Are Businesses Struggling to Hire?
by dageshi on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @10:52AM
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The point from most of the comments seems to be, if unemployment is enough to live on and the alternative is a job you don't particularly want to do, then there's no incentive to do the job you don't want to do?
If UBI just replaces unemployment, how does that calculation change? You still have enough money to live on you still don't want to do the job being offered?
Unless UBI is sufficiently low that you need a job to survive, in which case... is it UBI?