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Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 25 2017, @08:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the OBIPP? dept.

butthurt writes:

The Liberal premier of Ontario announced details of the Ontario Basic Income Pilot. The provincial government issued a press release saying

Three regions will take part in the study. Pilots will start in late spring in Hamilton, including Brantford and Brant County; and in Thunder Bay and the surrounding area. The third pilot will start by this fall [autumn] in Lindsay.

The Basic Income model Ontario has developed will ensure that eligible participants receive:

        Up to $16,989 per year for a single person, less 50 per cent of any earned income
        Up to $24,027 per year for a couple, less 50 per cent of any earned income
        Up to an additional $6,000 per year for a person with a disability.

[...] The three test regions will host 4,000 participants eligible to receive a basic income payment, between the ages of 18 to 64. By late spring, people in these areas will begin receiving information about the pilot and how to participate. The province is partnering with these communities and other experts to make sure that the Ontario Basic Income Pilot is fair, effective, and scientifically valid.

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Ontario is Starting a Universal Basic Income Pilot

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @02:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @02:49AM (#499803)

    So basically this is a plot to discredit basic income by paying welfare and calling it basic income.

    And it'll succeed for the elites wildly. UBI will never happen. Humans would rather kill each other first.

    Well, I shouldn't say never. It's always possible that in a million or even a few hundred thousand years, humans might have evolved into a species that has other priorities than bloodsports.

    I think the Drake equation looks at filter events wrong. It's not nuclear war that's the filter event or whatever; that can be survived. It's evolving from a species that is merely technological into a species that is finally able to supplant their animal instincts with rationality, despite absolutely no known natural selection pressure to do so.

    Humans are the apex predators of the planet. At a population exceeding 7 billion, I'd call that a huge success. Can humans be anything more than apex predators?