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Re:Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent by rbanffy on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @08:35AM (#45591453)
Baby steps. This is a very polarizing issue - a lot of people will complain that the receivers do nothing useful for society.

There's also the matter of funding it, but I agree with you. Making it universal and consolidating other programs into it would create some savings as well.

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Re:Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent by worthless-trash on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @08:37AM (#45591463)
I feel like artists may have been a poor choice to the subjective value of the outcome of their work, who knows.. maybe they figured this was destined to fail.
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Re:Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent by rbanffy on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @08:41AM (#45591521)
Output value being impossible to measure can be an advantage if the goal is to later expand the program. I wonder what indicators will me monitored.
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Re:Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent by worthless-trash on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @08:53AM (#45591671)
Thats a great point, I'd go as far as to say that it may be possible to see the 'side affects' further than first imagined with the artist group.

I look forward to the results.

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