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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: 2) by Booga1 on Wednesday March 11 2020, @11:43PM (1 child)
Your posts are seen. Some of us read the AC, negative scored posts, etc...
Sometimes you gotta do that to make sure that you don't miss a gem buried where it can't shine.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Thursday March 12 2020, @06:59AM
It takes some fiddling with the bonuses, but the only posts I don't see are those modded spam. (Plus 1 to everything, browse at 0.) I think it occasionally catches someone with karma so negative they post at -1 unmodded, but it's pretty rare and no great loss anyway.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.