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>> What's wrong with having UBI for 2 years and then suddenly having it cut off? re: Ontario's cancelled "experiment" - the recipient they talked to felt she h
by privacypoller 8y ago
>> What's wrong with having UBI for 2 years and then suddenly having it cut off?
re: Ontario's cancelled "experiment" - the recipient they talked to felt she had been "betrayed" and "wasn't going to be able to make ends meet"
So after less than 2 years it transformed from a narrow experiment into a entitlement, like many (most?) government programs. It was no longer treated as a "top-up" but a core component of survival.
It seems to make sense that a fixed-limit benefit would prevent this, but history shows that a non-trivial percentage of recipients just use it as a reprieve from the inevitable.
- dragontamer 8y ago> re: Ontario's cancelled "experiment" - the recipient they talked to felt she had been "betrayed" and "wasn't going to be able to make ends meet" Well yeah. But that person's life is surely for the better because the program existed for those two years? I don't want to demean that person's feelings. But two years with basic income is strictly better than two years without basic income. If the only argument against UBI is that "Penny-pinchers in the future might shut down the project", that isn't really a counter-argument at all.