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Kudos to Finland! I think their BI may be a bit high (the trial amount seems about right), but inflation will adjust to the amount so it won't really matter muc

Kudos to Finland! I think their BI may be a bit high (the trial amount seems about right), but inflation will adjust to the amount so it won't really matter much. I think it is wrong to think of BI as an income one could actually live comfortably on, as this article seems to. That would provide too much disincentive to be unproductive. Rather a BI should be just enough to keep people from starving and freezing and enough to bootstrap a life with.

saiya-jin 11y ago
Not sure about Finnish example, but where I am right now (Switzerland), social security does exactly that, without major costly experiments with god know what results. In fact, system is so effective that if you end up unemployed, for one year you'll be given 80% of your former salary (capped, but to 120,000 CHF!) so you are not burdened with looking for cheaper accommodation etc which is very hard here. If you cannot find anything in 1 year, then other services kick in, of course with much lower cash flow. It works remarkably well.