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>>since it removes pressure to find a job. NO, it does more than that. 1) It removes pressure to find a job on the schedule and expectations of the overseers.
by toss1 10mo ago
>>since it removes pressure to find a job.
NO, it does more than that. 1) It removes pressure to find a job on the schedule and expectations of the overseers. 2) It allows the recipient to start work even at a lower-level job without losing out. 3) It allows time for the recipient to find a job that actually suits them and their employer rather than taking the first thing that comes along out of desperation and pressure.
>>expected to earn a living by themselves and unemployment benefits
This is not testing "unemployment benefits", it is testing UBI
>> not meant to enable a life-style
An income of €560 per month, about $20/day, is hardly a lifestyle; it is enough to stay out of the gutter. This is only giving to people who do not have savings a sliver of the resources available to people sufficiently fortunate enough to have education and savings to fall back on.
It shows many of the differences in poverty are not due to any kind of merit/demerit, but simply lack of funds.
>>An useful measurement would be
Yes, that would be a DIFFERENT useful measurement. But to ignore the mental health aspects is to ignore real harms to both the people themselves and to the larger society, such as reduced isolation and crime, healthier communities, etc. Much of this was addressed by other experiments later in the article, which you either failed to read or intentionally ignored.
The entire point of the studies and article wasn't your trivial "who gets a job fastest (any job, no matter how ill-suited or temporary)", but the effects of payments vs bureaucracy.
The actual evidence is massively piling up that eliminating a patriarchal bureaucracy, means testing, and all this other govt overhead and simply giving everyone just-above-poverty-level income, will dramatically improve society, and it will be far more effective than all the layers of bureaucracy which not only add overhead, cost to the taxpayer, but also actual harm.
- mytailorisrich 10mo agoUnemployment benefit is to help you while you are out of job _involuntarily_ and while you look for a job, not to subsidise your lifestyle or aspiration to find your dream job. It's not about "patriarchal bureaucracy", whatever that might mean. There is actually a moral aspect here. Morals in society is that you work to earn your own living and that you don't abuse kindness. > This is not testing "unemployment benefits", it is testing UBI No, this was testing a sort of UBI vs traditional unemployment benefits based on the two groups: "The other group got it conditionally, with requirements to look for work, report to unemployment offices, and satisfy bureaucrats. And the money went away with employment." That's unemployment benefits. Again, it is obvious that the group who got money with no strings attached felt better, this does not tell us anything. It sounds like a contrived study that aims to prove that "UBI is better". > your trivial "who gets a job fastest (any job, no matter how ill-suited or temporary)", It's not trivial, it is the key metric. Granted, you could combine it with the "quality" of the new job that would also be useful, but since this is all to help people while they are looking for a job any studies and experiments must measure the impact on that otherwise there are missing the point. Frankly I don't understand this cultish attachment to UBI its proponents tend to have.
- beardyw 10mo ago,> There is actually a moral aspect here. Morals in society is that you work to earn your own living and that you don't abuse kindness. That is true, but it leaves out the question of who's morals we are discussing. If the recipient is not under any obligation, and yet gets a job, that morality is played out in them. If the person is under obligation and gets a job as a result, their moral position is unknown but likely unchanged Or perhaps we are talking about wanting other people to live out our morality?
- mytailorisrich 10mo agoIn this case society is paying (out of moral principles) so this gives it a fair right to set the moral expectation or just the practical one. Let's say someone does not get a job. Are they looking for one and being unsuccessful or are they just cashing their benefits? Checks are needed in practice unless it can be shown they are not (what I suggested in my previous comments).
- onraglanroad 10mo agoThere is absolutely no physical difference between someone on benefits living from your work and a billionaire living off your work. Well, except you have to contribute a lot more of your time to support the billionaire lifestyle than the benefits one. The legal difference is who owns some bits of paper but there is no physical difference in the work you do.
- toss1 10mo agoYou keep claiming there is a moral problem with giving people enough of a basic stipend to actually live out of the gutter. In the richest most affluent society in the history of the planet. In a society where it is organized so a handful of people control more than 50% of the society's wealth, and it is also organized so the minimum wage has stripped is no longer even sufficient to work FULL TIME and get above the poverty line. In a society where a family owns the largest employer in the country and sits on $Billions of wealth while they pay so little that a substantial number of their employees qualify for food assistance. Who is freeloading, the billionaire owners taking massive tax breaks and paying less than their office workers, or the minimum-wage laborer who must "take" government assistance in addition to his pay merely in order to not starve? A society can rightly be judged by how it treats it's lowest members. A moral affluent society would organize itself so every single person has a minimum of food, housing, healthcare, and education, even if a few were freeloading. Instead, you attempt to justify refusing to feed and house people because a few might freeload. Or, if not refusing, to implement massive government bureaucracies, which 1) are both costly and 2) are proven to make worse outcomes and 3) are even more easily defrauded, merely to make sure all the lowly workers who cannot get a leg up are suitably shamed and monitored, lest they receive just a little too much. And do not start on how some will waste UBI it on alcohol or drugs. The rich also waste their lives in the same way. While you stand on your moral high-horse, you argue for the most immoral actions.
- unmole 10mo ago> patriarchal bureaucracy My sides.