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The fine folks at the CBC bring us the following report:
Participants in Ontario's prematurely cancelled basic income pilot project were happier, healthier and continued working even though they were receiving money with no-strings attached.
That's according to a new report titled Southern Ontario's Basic Income Experience, which was compiled by researchers at McMaster and Ryerson University, in partnership with the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction.
The report shows nearly three-quarters of respondents who were working when the pilot project began kept at it despite receiving basic income.
That finding appears to contradict the criticism some levelled at the project, saying it would sap people's motivation to stay in the workforce or seek employment.
That's an interesting way of looking at it. An alternative viewpoint could be that over a quarter of the people who were working before the UBI trial stopped working. Unclear are the benefits that resulted from their new spare time — such as providing support to an ailing family member.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @03:22AM (8 children)
On this website, a point about basic economics on an economic topic such as UBI gets modded "Offtopic"!
This place is fucking hopeless.
(Score: 2, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 11 2020, @03:25AM (6 children)
That's part of why everyone gets mod points, to correct the revenge mods of the butthurt.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @07:01AM (3 children)
Ah, so that is why you run an army of sock puppets!
(Score: 5, Touché) by deimtee on Wednesday March 11 2020, @09:01AM (1 child)
I may disagree with his economic ideas, but you are just nuts. TMB runs the codebase, if he were inclined to cheat (and I don't think he is) he doesn't need sockpuppets. He could just put in a line:
If userid==18 Then MOD = +5 Fisherman;
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:29AM
Yup. Or write a script to insert bogus moderations from inactive users into the db to nuke any comment I don't like down to -1 by cid. Where's the fun in that though? I prefer to crush my enemies where everyone can see it. I mean, how am I supposed to enjoy listening to the lamentations of their women if they don't know to lament?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:22AM
Nope, only one person has ever sockpuppeted on SN. I wonder who that was...
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 11 2020, @03:25PM (1 child)
Wouldn't it be more efficient to cure the butthurt of the revenge mods?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:23AM
Can't be done.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @03:25AM
One bad m0d point = FUCKING HOPELESS.
Great economics there, chief.