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Canada's UBI Experiment Results Compiled

posted by martyb on Wednesday March 11 2020, @01:46AM   Printer-friendly
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The Mighty Buzzard writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by charon on Wednesday March 11 2020, @04:57AM

    by charon (5660) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @04:57AM (#969492) Journal
    It seems to me that a good portion of the people who would drop out of the workforce because they had UBI are the yahoos you don't want in the workforce anyway. The lazy and incompetent people who make your (second person pronoun; not necessarily you, TMB) life more difficult by being in your way at work. Another portion would be ordinarily competent people who are not contributing to their work environment because they happen to be sick or caring for sick family. The loss of the first group would be a net positive to most workplaces. Loss of the second would be neutral to the workplace until they get their feet under them (and a huge positive for them individually).
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