Why Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Isn’t Working(nytimes.com)
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Why Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Isn’t Working
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/opinion/finland-universal-basic-income.html?smid=fb-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=0
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Although i believe that Universal basic income will one day be available to everyone, we simply are not ready for it yet.
The full automation of jobs is still years and years away.
When we start running out of jobs for people then our government might start considering it.
As i see it this experiments will have little effect in the whole idea of the UBI. If someone guarantees you an extra income for only a year, then you wont really change your whole life. You might do an extra trip, purchase something that you wanted but never could but nothing life changing.
As i see it this experiments will have little effect in the whole idea of the UBI. If someone guarantees you an extra income for only a year, then you wont really change your whole life. You might do an extra trip, purchase something that you wanted but never could but nothing life changing.
This article is complete shit. No actual data thet proves the now misleading title. Some Yank decided to take a shit on an idea that is eventually going to be reality.
I am pro-UBI but this experiment only is I. So "as an experiment" it has failed.
> I am pro-UBI but this experiment only is I. So "as an experiment" it has failed.
You might want to read TFA. The experiment hasn't started yet and the authors criticise the reduction in scope.
You might want to read TFA. The experiment hasn't started yet and the authors criticise the reduction in scope.
Err, yes that was my point. It's not going to be U or B. So there's no point in calling it a UBI experiment.
Why is the idea eventually going to be a reality? I don't see any data proving your assertion.
Automation is going to cause one of two things, UBI or death. You must pay to survive in current society and work is money, this will not change. If you cannot find work you have no money. UBI or death.
There is a comment about the sample size having been reduced to a fifth of the original proposal. But my previous sentence is the entire content in the article relating to how the experiment is going.
Everything else in the article is commentary about the original proposal and unrelated to the experiment's progress.