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Current basic income studies show about ~10% work disincentive. Sure, you might start painting, and never turn back. But most people would like to do something,
by pas 7y ago
Current basic income studies show about ~10% work disincentive. Sure, you might start painting, and never turn back. But most people would like to do something, to have some extra money, etc. Basic will always be just that, very basic. But it would help tremendously to lift people out of the vicious cycle. (That they must take the shittiest jobs because they need money right now, so wages are low, because there are a lot of people who will take those jobs even at those low wages.)
- geofft 7y agoThat's better than I expected! 90% of people still working but actually taking sick leave / taking time off to care for family members / taking time off to learn new skills, plus 10% of people not working (and some fraction of them working on art or other good-for-humanity things that are traditionally unprofitable, some fraction of them working on moonshot ideas, etc.) should be even better for the economy!
- pas 7y agoYes, I was surprised too. Probably there's a serious but unknown-sized effect about what would happen if it wouldn't be a trial. (There was a link and a discussion on HN a few days ago.) The folks in the trial went to school and so on. (And that's included in the 10%, so who knows, maybe those would cancel out.)