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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @03:25AM (3 children)
The other name for UBI (in the States) is "Welfare for Everybody."
You don't want the entire country on welfare? Why not?
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @05:10AM (2 children)
Would it help if you thought of it as dividends to the stake holders?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @08:29AM
The proletariat cannot be allowed to be share holders. This isn't communist Russia.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 11 2020, @01:53PM