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The Mighty Buzzard writes:

The fine folks at the CBC bring us the following report [www.cbc.ca]:

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 [mcmaster.ca], 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. A much less insane way would be to say that over a quarter of everyone employed before the UBI trial said "Haha, suckers!" and quit working, exactly like opponents of UBI predicted.

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