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Literally anyone who’s read the results of any other time this experiment has been tried. Why are we still trying to prove the concept?
Here’s the link if anyone wants it!
Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being
We’re still trying to prove the concept because in the West, Big Business and their owners, The 1%, are screaming at the thought of having to give up a little money so everyone can get universal income that supports life – meaning jobs either have to pay you to put up with the literal shit or people can walk away from them without becoming homeless.
Our entire system is basically based on people being so afraid of homelessness and starvation that they’ll accept any shit job for shit pay.
And we have people who read this same article and fixate on “no significant statistical change in the likelihood of finding a job” and go SEE THAT PROVES IT DOESN’T WORK, IT DIDN’T MAKE MORE PEOPLE GET JOBS, DON’T GIVE PEOPLE HANDOUTS IT MAKES THEM LAZY and not even notice that they’re contradicting the exact thing they fixated on when they claim that ‘handouts make people lazy”, because IF that claim were true then there WOULD have been a change in the amount of people who got jobs. A negative one. There was NOT a statistically significant change OF ANY KIND, which proves the laziness theory those chucklefucks like to use to justify their cruelty as being utterly wrong.
When given money without strings attached, approximately the same number of people found new employment as those who did not receive a UBI.
And furthermore this only tested a small-scale effect, it did NOT account for the ripple benefits if UBI were deployed across an entire population, not only as an experiment to people on unemployment already. The economic benefits would be MASSIVE if all the poorest working people suddenly had enough extra money to cover their basic expenses, and could start spending on non-essentials more freely. Businesses would grow! Demand for goods and services would rise! There would be a need for more workers to meet demand, so unemployment would drop! But to really get that effect, UBI would have to be truly unconditional, and this study did not test that.
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