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The headline "Finland's basic income trial falls flat" implies that the results were poor, but the actual article just says that the government decided not to f
by elihu 9y ago
The headline "Finland's basic income trial falls flat" implies that the results were poor, but the actual article just says that the government decided not to fund it anymore and the OECD doesn't think it'll work without going into what the results were.
- manicdee 9y agoThe Finland experience turns out to be a great example of how not to run a UBI experiement: - no management support (government was divided and attention wandered) - unemployment benefits sre privately managed so those entities lose out if UBI is successful - not universal (no entire village/city was chosen) - tiny sample size - only unemployed people chosen - no employed people, chosen from a range of income brackets But regardless of the flaws, the experiment will be held up as an example of why UBI doesn’t work (never mind that the experiment was not UBI).