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In the US, perhaps. There may be another payment, though, if this goes on. Take a look in the UK. They are subsidising employer payments to employees, for 80%

by m11a 6y ago

In the US, perhaps. There may be another payment, though, if this goes on. Take a look in the UK. They are subsidising employer payments to employees, for 80% of the employee's salary. Also upping state welfare, reducing the approval time to a week, and don't require check-ins: effectively a UBI. I've heard Spain is implementing UBI in the regular sense.

notahacker 6y ago
> Take a look in the UK. They are subsidising employer payments to employees, for 80% of the employee's salary. Also upping state welfare, reducing the approval time to a week, and don't require check-ins: effectively a UBI. I live in the UK. These are again, temporary schemes with highly variable payments which the vast majority of the working age population is not entitled to. Subsidising employers based on their employees' wage levels and [in]ability to work is actually considerably less like a UBI than most of the decades-old elements of the UK's welfare state.