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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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday March 11 2020, @01:30PM (3 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @01:30PM (#969603)

    we have good reason to be afraid of another

    But, is that fear necessary for a good quality of life?

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 11 2020, @01:51PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 11 2020, @01:51PM (#969610) Journal

    But, is that fear necessary for a good quality of life?

    Of course it is. Gullibility has a high cost when it comes to governance.

    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday March 11 2020, @05:01PM (1 child)

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @05:01PM (#969699)

      Careful how you read the Baron de Montesquieu, context and tone is important.

      Were I to vindicate our right to make slaves of the negroes, these should be my arguments:
      The Europeans, having extirpated the Americans, were obliged to make slaves of the Africans, for clearing such vast tracts of land.
      Sugar would be too dear if the plants which produce it were cultivated by any other than slaves.
      These creatures are all over black, and with such a flat nose that they can scarcely be pitied.
      It is hardly to be believed that God, who is a wise Being, should place a soul, especially a good soul, in such a black ugly body.
      It is so natural to look upon color as the criterion of human nature, that the Asiatics, among whom eunuchs are employed, always deprive the blacks of their resemblance to us by a more opprobrious distinction.
      The color of the skin may be determined by that of the hair, which, among the Egyptians, the best philosophers in the world, was of such importance that they put to death all the red-haired men who fell into their hands.
      The negroes prefer a glass necklace to that gold which polite nations so highly value. Can there be a greater proof of their wanting common sense?
      It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men, because, allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow that we ourselves are not Christians.
      Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans. For were the case as they state it, would the European powers, who make so many needless conventions among themselves, have failed to enter into a general one, in behalf of humanity and compassion?

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      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 13 2020, @12:03AM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 13 2020, @12:03AM (#970468) Journal
        Seems that you're the one needing care. I took it in the context and tone you gave it.