Basic Income Pilot Project / Study results
www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de
What does a universal basic income really achieve? Find the results of the first long-term German study here.
    • Tomassci@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      We aren’t implementing because it doesn’t work, but because the mindset of many people is that those eho don’t work deserve no money. Except if they’re already rich.

    • LoamImprovement@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 days ago

      We never will because it’d be the end of late stage capitalism and that means billionaires can’t have their yachts and jets, and we just can’t have that.

  • biofaust@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    This bears the question: is that what the elite wants? I mean you wouldn’t accept a shitty job and you would consume less to compensate your dissatisfaction, so…

  • seeigel@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Who would join a club to do UBI in a private way? Pay a fraction of one’s income into a pool that is distributed among all members.

    The disadvantage would be that everybody would expect each member to work at first. In the long run, the club could try to have capital to reduce the need for work.

    If that gets big enough, UBI for everybody would be possible without having to create a political change.

    • Martin@feddit.nuEnglish
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      2 days ago

      You mean some kind of percentage of each person’s salary that is then redistributed to the whole group. Sounds familiar…