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I agree, further study is warranted. They should do it again with a larger cohort for longer and with more objective measures.
by nkrisc 9mo ago
I agree, further study is warranted. They should do it again with a larger cohort for longer and with more objective measures.
- kelseyfrog 9mo agoLarger and larger until we're just flat out testing UBI is fine by me. If you want to test UBI, there's no better way than implementing UBI.
- hubber 9mo ago[flagged]
- kelseyfrog 9mo agoOk? Sorry, I don't understand the point you're making.
- nkrisc 9mo agoSure, if you want to live on $1,000/month, go for it. I’ll be earning more than that though so I can travel more and do other stuff. Maybe you’ll get bored and spend some of your time doing something productive, or maybe not, and that’s OK too.
- insane_dreamer 9mo agoplease post location of beach and list of beverages that you can possibly survive on for $1K/month
- stevenwoo 9mo agoWe already know just based on the limited amount from the annual payment to all residents of Alaska from their state wide oil and mineral fund over the past 40 some odd years, there are a lot of studies - off top of my head some study found people who were unemployed were in aggregate slightly more likely to get work, because the money enabled them to look farther for jobs instead of just surviving, it also increased demand for goods and services provided by other Alaskans. Here's one of many that breaks things down from economist point of view https://home.uchicago.edu/~j1s/Jones_Alaska_2022.pdf https://home.uchicago.edu/~j1s/Jones_Alaska_2022.pdf