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Can someone edit the title to say it is a trial run for 3 yr duration and 300 people. The title sounds like every Young Adult in LA can enroll into this program

Can someone edit the title to say it is a trial run for 3 yr duration and 300 people. The title sounds like every Young Adult in LA can enroll into this program which is way more ambitious than what is happening here.

spa3thyb 4y ago
HN hews to using the source title, which I think the submitter did here (based on the URL, 'l-a-basic-income-program-to-give-young-adults-1-000-a-month'). See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html for more.
- prostoalex 4y ago
  Yeah, the current markup still is <title>L.A. basic income program to give young adults $1,000 a month - Los Angeles Times</title>
MattGaiser 4y ago
Hacker News guidelines are to generally use the original title. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- AnimalMuppet 4y ago
  Unless the original title is misleading. Arguably, this one is.
HWR_14 4y ago
To those who have issue with editorializing in violation of HN rules, the original source[1] used the title "Three-Year Guaranteed Income Pilot Program for 300 Youth Launches" [1] https://hildalsolis.org/three-year-guaranteed-income-pilot-program-for-300-youth-launches/ https://hildalsolis.org/three-year-guaranteed-income-pilot-p...
tenpies 4y ago
I'm not sure why we even need a trial. It will be a resounding success and the guaranteed income and MMT crowds will point to this study as "proof" that guaranteed income does not cause economy-destroying inflation, always ignoring that it only gave money to 300 people in a city of nearly 4 million. There, I just saved the city of LA $10,800,000 plus several more millions in bureaucrats.
- lotsofpulp 4y ago
  Increased marginal income/sales tax rates would be how economy-destroying inflation is reduced.
- iLoveOncall 4y ago
  I don't have sources on hand but iirc, previous trials of the sort have actually been failures. And I'm not talking about the inflation it would obviously cause, but just the social impact. Basically there is usually no improvement in the situation of anyone, and just more people that decide to do nothing.
  - Matumio 4y ago
    If you measure "amount of paid work done" then most (not sure if all) experiments were failures. If you also count unpaid work, education and health benefits[1] then things get interesting. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7208547/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7208547/
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spa3thyb 4y ago

HN hews to using the source title, which I think the submitter did here (based on the URL, 'l-a-basic-income-program-to-give-young-adults-1-000-a-month'). See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html for more.

prostoalex 4y ago
Yeah, the current markup still is <title>L.A. basic income program to give young adults $1,000 a month - Los Angeles Times</title>

MattGaiser 4y ago

Hacker News guidelines are to generally use the original title. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

AnimalMuppet 4y ago
Unless the original title is misleading. Arguably, this one is.

HWR_14 4y ago

To those who have issue with editorializing in violation of HN rules, the original source[1] used the title "Three-Year Guaranteed Income Pilot Program for 300 Youth Launches" [1] https://hildalsolis.org/three-year-guaranteed-income-pilot-program-for-300-youth-launches/ https://hildalsolis.org/three-year-guaranteed-income-pilot-p...

tenpies 4y ago

I'm not sure why we even need a trial. It will be a resounding success and the guaranteed income and MMT crowds will point to this study as "proof" that guaranteed income does not cause economy-destroying inflation, always ignoring that it only gave money to 300 people in a city of nearly 4 million. There, I just saved the city of LA $10,800,000 plus several more millions in bureaucrats.

lotsofpulp 4y ago
Increased marginal income/sales tax rates would be how economy-destroying inflation is reduced.
iLoveOncall 4y ago
I don't have sources on hand but iirc, previous trials of the sort have actually been failures. And I'm not talking about the inflation it would obviously cause, but just the social impact. Basically there is usually no improvement in the situation of anyone, and just more people that decide to do nothing.
- Matumio 4y ago
  If you measure "amount of paid work done" then most (not sure if all) experiments were failures. If you also count unpaid work, education and health benefits[1] then things get interesting. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7208547/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7208547/
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