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It also applies to the underemployed or underpaid, they will top up earnings you might already have.

• ac29 6y ago
  I wonder how many people will see their employers cut their wages since "the government will make up the rest".
  • pvaldes 6y ago
    Very unlikely. That would be suicidal publicity at this moment.
  • tom_mellior 6y ago
    Anyone with such an employer would hopefully quit, now that they have the security of the guaranteed minimal income. Which means that this is to some extent a worker protection scheme: Employers will have to make menial, badly paid jobs more attractive since they will now be competing against "no work for the same money". In theory, at least. In practice things might devolve into more unreported employment, so workers could get both the full state minimum income and an unreported income on top of it. This is one of the crucial differences to a proper universal basic income: The UBI does not discourage taking a job that adds income to the UBI. This kind of minimal income scheme does discourage taking badly paid jobs, since the total money you receive remains the same whether you work or not.