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Re:Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings. Her... by nkrisc on Sunday February 01, 2026 @03:52PM (#46849267)
I agree, further study is warranted. They should do it again with a larger cohort for longer and with more objective measures.
Re:Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings. Her... by kelseyfrog on Sunday February 01, 2026 @04:23PM (#46849496)
Larger and larger until we're just flat out testing UBI is fine by me. If you want to test UBI, there's no better way than implementing UBI.
Re:Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings. Her... by hubber on Sunday February 01, 2026 @07:14PM (#46850815)
Hell yeah. Me and the boys sitting on the beach all day sipping beverages on your dime. Thanks the for the taxes, wagie!
Re:Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings. Her... by kelseyfrog on Sunday February 01, 2026 @08:37PM (#46851381)
Ok? Sorry, I don't understand the point you're making.
Re:Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings. Her... by nkrisc on Monday February 02, 2026 @06:08AM (#46854668)
Sure, if you want to live on $1,000/month, go for it. I’ll be earning more than that though so I can travel more and do other stuff.

Maybe you’ll get bored and spend some of your time doing something productive, or maybe not, and that’s OK too.

Re:Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings. Her... by insane_dreamer on Monday February 02, 2026 @12:40PM (#46858769)
please post location of beach and list of beverages that you can possibly survive on for $1K/month
Re:Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings. Her... by stevenwoo on Sunday February 01, 2026 @08:31PM (#46851336)
We already know just based on the limited amount from the annual payment to all residents of Alaska from their state wide oil and mineral fund over the past 40 some odd years, there are a lot of studies - off top of my head some study found people who were unemployed were in aggregate slightly more likely to get work, because the money enabled them to look farther for jobs instead of just surviving, it also increased demand for goods and services provided by other Alaskans. Here's one of many that breaks things down from economist point of view https://home.uchicago.edu/~j1s/Jones_Alaska_2022.pdf