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Interesting, would this be a case that shows that basic income wouldn't work?

• athenot 8y ago
  It's not the same model. Presumably the €400 are forfeited when earing €500 as a salary. One of the premises of basic income is that working more doesn't cancel out any benefits.
• NegatioN 8y ago
  That sounds like a stretch, and you probably need to define what you mean by "basic income not working". For who? Society? Employers? The worker? Parts of these "youngsters" are probably off doing something related to self-development and fulfilling which might provide benefits for society later on. In this case they (seemingly) aren't getting any more money from working extra, compared to not working either, since their social benefits are stripped away if they start working. If this was basic income, they would be left with something extra at the end. In this case there's no incentive to work?
• Spooky23 8y ago
  Not at all. It is a signal that with the instinct for survival removed, people will push back on hard work for low pay, as they should. I think society would be a better place if people were paid based on the value they delivered, and not coerced into work based on the need to subsist. When employers/owners have to absorb long-term costs, they make changes. People who work on pipes or other buried things used to often get killed or injured by collapses of mud or stone. Worker's compensation costs forced employers to put reinforced steel safety devices in the holes to mitigate.
• johnchristopher 8y ago
  Really frustrating to hear that argument. It's the same the right is making across Europe: "Just remove the social security net, then people will be forced to accept any wage.".