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The crime rate, especially drug crime, decreases significantly when more 16-44 year olds have access to affordable Vocational Education and Training, (VET) according to a new University of Melbourne report.
Drug crime rate decreased 13 per cent when more people had access to a publicly-funded place in VET. The research also recorded a five percent and 11 per cent decrease in personal and property crime respectively, including assault, theft and burglary.
Report author, Dr Cain Polidano from the Melbourne Institute found that the extra public funding of VET (TAFE and private colleges) reduced the costs of crime.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by TheRaven on Friday July 29 2016, @09:27AM
Universal basic income doesn't mean that you won't work, it just means that you'll have a stronger bargaining position with potential employers. If you don't need the job to live then you can walk away if the conditions are too bad, but if they're okay then the extra income still increases your quality of life.
One of the big problems with a lot of current welfare implementations is that going from not working at all to working a little bit can decrease your net income. UBI has the big advantage that if you always make more money by working than by not working, no matter how little you work. You also always make more money by working more than by working less (though with a progressive tax system, the marginal increase may be lower as you work more).
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @09:59AM
All of that is splendid and has absolutely nothing to do with the point- areas of increased welfare (i.e.- lack of job opportunities) typically have higher rates of crime.
If there is no work, basic income means squat towards the crime rate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @10:14AM
If you are getting a basic income, it makes it much easier to move to a better place where they may be jobs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @01:36PM
And that's splendid but fails to account for every UBI trial ever done.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @11:08AM
The proposed Switzerland basic income was over $2,500 a month per adult. Even accounting for higher cost of living, that is massive.
Many in the US can live comfortably on $800-1k a month and never work again. For extra money to spend on luxuries, committing opportunistic crimes once in a while such as mugging Pokemon Gotards is far easier than holding a job. If your crimes catch up to you, all your basic needs including health care are met in prison.
You can also afford to be your own pimp and sell sex services with relative safety. To be fair, that can be called a job, but you don't even have to leave your government paid-for rented home or get off the bed to be a camwhore. Finally, the best manipulators will get clients to pay to watch them eat, or pay for the thrill of being financially dominated. That's right, there are men who pay "fin doms" to take their money and get almost nothing in return except maybe verbal abuse.
The future is universal basic income, total unemployment, VR games, and absolute surveillance. Not so bad right?