Participants received $1,000 a month. They took better jobs, went back to school and started opening businesses.
  • Blaster MEnglish
    31•7 months ago

    So it seems that helping people out of the debt hole they’ve fallen / been tossed into makes them more able to work and contribute to society. What a concept!

    • atro_city
      10•7 months ago

      Some people still can’t seem to grasp it, no matter how many times you explain it to them. Once their jobs are replaced by AI and they’re unemployable, I bet you they’ll suddenly be screaming for it.

  • HubertManne
    3•7 months ago

    Its almost impossible to study this as to be done properly it must be universal and replace all forms of cash assitance.

    • atro_city
      11•7 months ago

      Of course. Another person that didn’t read the article.

        • atro_city
          6•7 months ago

          And yet you still don’t understand the concept of guaranteed basic income. It’s not called “conditional basic income”, “the last income you’ll ever get”, nor is it called “universal basic income”. The article doesn’t even mention universal once.

          • HubertManne
            1•7 months ago

            ah ok. that is my mistake then. I usually assume many of these are words for the same thing which I think of as universal basic income. I think we will see slight improvements from non universal things as we always have with social safety nets but we will see incredible things with a universal one as it changes the whole mindset of people on what they can do.