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Re:Confessions of A Job Destroyer by eru on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @02:26AM (#5360554)
> Your ideal solution has been tried.

Who has tried basic income and failed?

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Re:Confessions of A Job Destroyer by scarmig on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @03:12AM (#5360660)
Mincome in Manitoba. I don't read too much into it and think it's pretty debatable that it failed, but one thing it certainly did show is that people wouldn't all suddenly stop working. IIRC only one group of people actually decreased how much they worked significantly: teenage mothers. The modal response was continuing to work and using the extra money for extra consumption.
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Re:Confessions of A Job Destroyer by padraigm on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @08:03AM (#5361309)
The Mincome experiment only failed in the sense that despite proving the benefits of a minimum income, it hasn't caught on very quickly elsewhere.
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Re:Confessions of A Job Destroyer by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @03:06AM (#5360643)
Canada tried it in a single town once.

On the one hand, the Mincome experiment ran vastly over its budget. On the other hand, it monumentally decreased the symptoms of poverty and improved living conditions, while turning out to only reduce people's "practiced work-ethic" (ie: real work-hours) by 5%.

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