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Another successful Universal Basic Income study. There was no drop in productiveness "On average, study participants worked 40 hours a week and stayed in employment" “We find no evidence that people love doing nothing,” instead "their lives were “more valuable and meaningful” and felt a clear improvement in their mental health" since poverty is on purpose to keep us feeling stressed and beaten so we don't fight back #1984book
@MikeImBack I think it’s great from the perspective of how much suffering can be eased. On a wide scale there is so much risk for abuses. Subsidizing a large portion of the population makes them reliant to the government, thus subject to any possible negative outcomes. With how thirsty the world seems to be for authoritarian rule I have little trust this dependence wouldn’t be absurd.
On city or county scopes though where power is well defined it could absolutely mitigate that.
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I always doubts those studies. I couldn't quit my job for 1200€ even if I wanted to. Less workhours is not an option at most companies.
There's a bunch of fulfilling things to do on this planet, and we won't have troubles getting even rich people to do fulfilling stuff, but there is also cleaning-toilets-stuff. Any start of large scale basic income will once again be a benefit to the wealthy and colonize people from poor countries.