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Re:A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic incom... by tormeh on Thursday July 02, 2015 @05:36AM (#9817777)
Just go to a country with really high labor costs. This is exactly what you'll see. Lots of work goes undone because people just don't care enough to pay for it. Usually just cosmetic or convenience stuff.
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Re:A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic incom... by jlarocco on Thursday July 02, 2015 @10:46PM (#9823122)
Actually, that happens in the United States.

I read an article a while back that some types of manual labor are having a really hard time filling positions because nobody wants to do them for what they can afford to pay, and IIRC, they were already paying significantly higher than minimum wage.

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